What to watch at the Rio Games on Saturday

South Korea, with Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu as chef de mission, will be represented by 204 athletes and 129 officials in 24 out of 28 sports in Rio.

The International Olympic Committee confirmed 118 athletes, or nearly one third of the Russian team, will be banned from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games due to blood doping. That followed an investigation for the World Anti-Doping Agency that detailed state-sponsored cheating in Russian Federation.

The IOC also noted that athletes who have been cleared by CAS have to follow a 3-step IOC procedure that includes the worldwide federation (in this case, FINA), the CAS and the IOC panel.

They do not include track and field athletes and weightlifters, who were banned for doping offences.

Instead, the IOC asked worldwide federations to examine individual Russian athletes to determine if they should be eligible for the games.

But Zhukov said long jumper Darya Klishina will be able to compete. It is unclear whether she will be competing for the Russian team or as an independent athlete.

Meanwhile, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the International Olympic Committee rule that bars from the games any Russian athletes with prior doping sanctions, saying it amounts to sanctioning someone twice for one offence.

Some in the global sports community had called for the entire Russian team to be banned as punishment.

The controversy over doping by Russian athletes has dominated the run-up to Games, with rowing just one of several sports from which they have been banned either partially or fully.

“For clean athletes, I think the situation in Rio is tough to watch”, said Travis Tygart, head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.