The findings of the McLaren Report should have led to all Russian athletes being banned from competing from the Rio Olympics but instead the IOC wimped out and gave the decision to each sports' governing body. More Russian athletes have now found themselves on the end of a ban.
The IAAF took positive action in banning Russia from the athletics at Rio next month and many hoped that the McLaren report and holding up of the IAAF's ban by WADA would see the IOC give a blanket ban for the upcoming Olympics but they decided against that.
Whilst tennis and a couple of other sports have decided against banning Russia from competing the International Canoe Federation have decided to ban five Russians from competing in the sprint events with four of those places going to other countries.
The ICF have banned Elena Aniushina, Natalia Podolskaia, Alexander Dyachenko, Andrey Kraitor and Alexey Korovashkov following the report into systematic and state sponsored doping in over 30 sports in Russia.
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Simon Toulson, the ICF secretary-general, said: "This is a bitter blow for the Olympic movement and we are saddened that our sport in implicated. We have taken swift action and removed all offending athletes where doping evidence exists.
"The ICF will continue its strong zero-tolerance stance and remove all athletes that contravene its rules in anyway.
"We are clear that if you step out of line you won't make the start line."
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We salute every sport who takes a strong line on doping.
(Via Daily Mail)
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