IOC allowed 29 Russian swimmers to the Olympics

The Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed 29 Russian swimmers to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the press service of the International Swimming Federation (Fina) reports.

Sofya Andreeva, Victoria Andreeva, Daria Chikunova, Svetlana Chimrova, Anastasia Fesikova, Daria Mullakaeva, Rosalia Nasretdinova, Arina Optnysheva, Veronika Popova, Vyacheslav Andrusenko, Alexey Bryazinsky, Anton Chupkov, Ilya Druzhinin, Andrei Grechin, Danila Chimova. Ilya Khomenko, Alexander Krasnykh, Evgeny Koptelov, Semyon Makovich, Daniil Pakhomov, Alexander Popkov, Yaroslav Potapov, Kirill Product, Evgeny Rylov, Alexander Sadovnikov, Andrei Shabasov, Alexander Sukhorukov, Grigory Tarasevich, Vsevolod Zanko.

In the list of athletes, Vladimir Morozov, Nikita Lontsev, Daria Ustinova and Yulia Efimova, who also counted on the participation of games, is not about the Games.

Meanwhile, the R-Sport agency with reference to the press service of the All-Russian Swimming Federation reports that Morozov and Lobinsev received a notification that they were allowed to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Morozov, Lobertsev, Ustinov and Efimov were among the athletes whom the Fina, on the recommendation of the IOC, was removed from the competition, since their names were in the report of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA). All four challenged the decision of the Fina in the sports arbitration court (CAS). After that, Fina admitted to the Olympics of Lobertsev and Morozov. There was no positive decision regarding Daria Ustinova and Yulia Efimova .

The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee previously granted international sports federations the right to determine who can speak at the Games. The decisive on the issue of the admission of Russian athletes is the word of the IOC commission.