Seven Russian swimmers suspended from the Olympics-2016 in Rio

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Seven representatives of the Russian national swimming team will not be able to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, including the main star of the team, four-time world champion Yulia Efimov.

According to the International Swimming Federation (FINA), they do not satisfy the conditions for admission to competitions, which were previously announced by the International Olympic Committee.

A day before the IOC He has made a decision not to remove the full Russian team from participating in the 2016 Olympiad, but transferred the authority to admit to the Games of the federations in certain sports. In this case, only athletes who have not been convicted of doping before will be able to go to Brazil, even if they have already completed their suspension.

Efimova, who won a bronze medal at the previous Olympics in London, was disqualified in May 2014 of the year for 1,5 of the year for using the steroid hormone dehydroepiandrosterone. The athlete wrote an explanatory note in which she acknowledged the use of a dietary supplement containing prohibited substances.

Over the past few years, Julia Efimova trained in the United States with the famous American specialist David Salo.

Agent titled swimmer Andrei Mitkov said on Monday that Efimova will file a lawsuit in the Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) against the decision of the International Swimming Federation.

In addition to her, Vladimir Morozov, Nikita Lobintsev, Daria Ustinova, Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Anastasia Krapivina and Natalia Lovtsova were excluded from participation in the Games.

At the same time, Morozov and Lobintsev, who, like Efimova, trained in the USA and were not previously convicted of doping, were included in the “black list” only on the basis of an unpublished annex to the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), prepared by an independent commission Richard McLaren.

All athletes, whose names are contained in the McLaren report, as previously reported, will not be able to get into the final bid of the Russian team for the Olympics. However, about what reasons Morozov and Lobintsev got into it is not reported yet.

“I sent an official letter to FINA in which I asked to explain for what violations the athletes were included on this list. The link is to McLaren’s report, but we have no other information about what exactly they violated,” said Vladimir Salnikov, president of the All-Russian Swimming Federation (RSF).

Morozov, 24, is a three-time world champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the relay, and Lobintsev, 27, is a two-time Olympic medalist and four-time world championship medalist.

Canadian law professor Richard McClaren and his WADA commission colleagues concluded that in Russia, a large-scale doping program was conducted from 2011 to 2015 under the control of the state, which particularly affected the home Olympiad 2014 in Sochi.

FINA reported that they also intend to double-check all the doping tests of Russian athletes who spoke at the 2015 World Championships in water sports in Kazan. At the same time, the federation stated that Russian synchronized swimmers who had selected the Olympics, jumpers into the water and water polo players were not involved in the use of doping.

At the moment, given previously disqualified in full Russian athletes (the only exception was Darya Klishina), the 83 Russian athlete will not be able to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio. Among them are 3 Olympic champions, including pole-vaulting Yelena Isinbayeva, 8 prize-winners of the Games of various years and 13 world champions.

The Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August.

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