(Dagbladet): The months leading up to the Rio Olympics have been littered with doping revelations.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has disqualified and banned a number of athletes after retesting their blood samples taken during the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
Despite all this, it is the McLaren report, which proved that Russian athletes have been part of a state sponsored doping program on a massive scale, that has shocked the world to it’s core.
The World Anti Doping Agency, Wada, wanted to ban Russia from the Olympics on the basis of the McLaren report, but wasn’t heard in the IOC. Instead, the IOC passed the decision making over to each individual sporting federation, a move that hasn’t left the IOC President Thomas Bach unscathed.
The International Associaton of Athletics Federation (IAAF), however, decided to ban all Russian athletes from the competitions, while other federations welcomed Russian participation.
When the number of Russian participants were counted late Thursday, 271 Russian athletes were cleared for competition in Rio. Despite all controversy, Russia will still hold one of the largest contingencies of the Olympic Games.
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