271 Russian athletes cleared to take part in Rio Games

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271 Russian athletes cleared to take part in Rio Games

 

 

MOSCOW: -- Russian Olympic Committee head Alexander Zhukov announced 271 Russian athletes will take part in the Rio Games amid the country’s unfolding doping scandal.

 

Speaking at a news conference in Rio, the 60-year-old added that Russia will be the cleanest team at the event due to the constant scrutiny its athletes had been under ahead of the Games.

 

The International Olympic Committee asked individual federations to decide whether Russians could compete following the country’s doping scandal.

 

Russia, which narrowly avoided a complete ban from the Olympics, had hoped to have between 272 and 280 athletes declared eligible for Rio.

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-05

[NongKhaiKid]

What a mess,  corruption,  cowardice,  incompetence,  who knows but the IOC is a disgrace and the Sepp Blatter look alike Thomas Bach is just as untrustworthy and insincere.

What happens now if a Russian is caught doping,  will it have to be covered up again but this time to spare the IOC's blushes  ?

The Russians have been handed a great propaganda coup and they'll certainly know how to use it.

Edited August 4, 2016 by NongKhaiKid

[colinneil]

World sport is now a total disgrace.

Every international  sporting event is now mired in doping/ corruption.

Russia has been caught in a state sponsored doping scandal.

What have the IOC done about it, ohh you can come to the Olympics if you promise to be good.

Maybe the Olympic governing body is scared of poison umbrellas.

[spidermike007]

The entire planet knows how guilty the Russians are. No amount of PR, and no amount of deflection on the part of the Olympic committee, will ever be able to remove the egg on it's face. Someone is purchasing a new villa at this moment, with the funds that were paid by Russia. It is an absolutely sickening development, that any of the Russian athletes were allowed to compete, after these findings. Dreadful. A permanent scar, on the face of the Olympic committee. Shame on them. We all know what really happened, folks. You cannot fool us. We saw the findings. King Vlad tried, but could not fool the masses.

The paralympic athletes are merely the sacrificial lambs. Kind Vlad will not lose a wink of sleep over this. His entire career is built on throwing people under the bus. 

Bach should be holding his head in utther shame, over this. He appears to be nearly as corrupt as Sepp Blatter was. Of course nobody will ever rise to the level of Blatter, more than likely, unless one counts Madoff. But, we are discussing sports here. A crook is a crook. Bach appears to be a crook, and Vlad found some easy pickings with him.

In defense of his actions, Bach was quoted as saying: "This is not about destroying structures," IOC president Thomas Bach said in reference to WADA. "This is about improving significantly a system in order to have a robust and efficient anti-doping system so that such a situation that we face now cannot happen again."

How is that for justifying personal enrichment?