
The International Olympic Committee intends to completely remove the Russian national team from games in Rio de Janeiro. It is reported by The Daily Mail with reference to the informed source.
In addition, the IOC intends to ban Russian athletes to participate in the upcoming Winter Olympic Games 2018 in South Korea. The IOC in this way intends to punish Russia for supporting doping at the state level and tacking the results of doping industry at the Sochi Olympics.
"IOC wants to refuse Russia to participate to show that doping is a threat to all sports. But Thomas Bach (President of the IOC. - Ed.) Also wants to consider the right of individual athletes to participate in the Olympics," the source said.
According to the newspaper, this decision will be announced on Sunday after an emergency meeting of the IOC Executive Committee. At it, the Committee will study the decision of the sports arbitration court, which upheld the removal from the Olympics of the Russian national athletics.
Meanwhile, The Times reports that Russian athletes were among those whose doping tests gave a positive result after the recruits of trial taken from the participants of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. The publication does not indicate the names of athletes.
On Thursday, the sports arbitration court in Lausanne rejected the lawsuit of the Russian Olympic Committee. CAS Secretary General Mathieu Rib said that the OCR could not declare athletes at the 2016 Olympics . "An appeal is possible through the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne within 30 days," Rib said. Nevertheless, according to him, the IOC did not participate in the process and will decide on the admission of the Russian national team to the games independently.
The Kremlin expressed regret in connection with the decision of CAS. “Of course, I can unequivocally express regret in connection with such a decision of the sports arbitration court, which concerns absolutely all of our athletes, our athletes, because the topic of collective responsibility from our point of view can hardly be acceptable,” said the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The news is not very good, we still have to analyze the situation with the following decisions. Therefore, now from the further decision. Comments would have been abstract so far. "
On Friday, the IOC reported that the results of the second wave of the recruitment in doping tests of 30 participants in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were found for prohibited substances . 15 samples taken at the 2012 Olympics in London also turned out to be positive. The names of athletes who fell on the prohibited drugs, and their civilian affiliation did not indicate.