The IOC rejected the recommendation, stating that the IOC and each sport's international federation would make decisions on each athlete's individual basis.
(meta data) TITLE: Decision of the IOC Executive Board concerning the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 - Olympic News (meta data) AUTHOR: International Olympic Committee (meta data) PUBLISHER: 209361989215 (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 19 Jul 2016 skip to content Olympic Games Olympic Games Olympic Winter Games Youth Olympic Games LA 2028 Milan-Cortina 2026 Paris 2024 Beijing 2022 Tokyo 2020 Pyeongchang 2018 Rio 2016 Sochi 2014 London 2012 Vancouver 2010 Beijing 2008 Turin 2006 Athens 2004 Salt Lake CIty 2002 Sydney 2000 Nagano 1998 Atlanta 1996 Lillehammer 1994 Barcelona 1992 Albertville 1992 Seoul 1988 Calgary 1988 Los Angeles 1984 Sarajevo 1984 Moscow 1980 Lake Placid 1980 Montreal 1976 Innsbruck 1976 Munich 1972 Sapporo 1972 Mexico 1968 Grenoble 1968 Tokyo 1964 Innsbruck 1964 Rome 1960 Squaw Valley 1960 Stockholm 1956 d'Ampezzo 1956 Helsinki 1952 Oslo 1952 London 1948 St. Moritz 1948 Berlin 1936 Partenkirchen 1936 Los Angeles 1932 Lake Placid 1932 Amsterdam 1928 St. Moritz 1928 Paris 1924 Chamonix 1924 Antwerp 1920 Stockholm 1912 London 1908 St. Louis 1904 Paris 1900 Athens 1896 Lausanne 2020 Buenos Aires 2018 Lillehammer 2016 Nanjing 2014 Innsbruck 2012 Singapore 2010 More About the Olympic Games Ancient Games From candidate to host city Opening ceremonies Closing ceremonies Summer Sports Artistic Swimming Beach Volleyball Canoe Slalom Canoe Sprint Cycling BMX Cycling Mountain Bike Cycling Road Cycling Track Equestrian/Dressage Equestrian/Eventing Equestrian/Jumping Gymnastics Artistic Gymnastics Rhythmic Marathon Swimming Modern Pentathlon Table Tennis Water Polo Wrestling Freestyle Wrestling Greco- Roman Winter Sports Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing Figure skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Nordic Combined Short Track Speed Skating Ski Jumping Speed skating Countries/NOC Watch Olympic Videos PyeongChang 2018 Rio 2016 sochi 2014 london 2012 vancouver 2010 beijing 2008 turin 2006 Athens 2004 Salt Lake City 2002 Sydney 2000 Nagano 1998 Atlanta 1996 Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Day Olympic Games and YOG News Olympic games news beijing 2022 tokyo 2020 pyeongchang 2018 Rio 2016 sochi 2014 london 2012 YOG news Lausanne 2020 BUENOS AIRES 2018 lillehammer 2016 nanjing 2014 innsbruck 2012 News topics ioc news host city elections torch relay olympic games legacy Fight against doping Refugee Olympic Team Information for the Media media resources key events calendar Photos and videos press releases reference Documents Latest IOC Updates on twitter What we do Olympic Games From Candidate to Host City Olympism in Society Sport and Active Society Women in sport Social Development Refugee Olympic Team Peace through sport Cooperation United Nations Olympic Studies Centre Olympic Day the Olympic Movement Olympic Agenda 2020 National Olympic Organising Committees for the Olympic Games Support and protect clean athletes Olympic Solidarity Athletes' community Fight against doping Prevention of competition manipulation Healthy Body Image and Abuse in Sport Who we are The Olympic Rings The organisation How we do it The Museum Practical Information TOM Cafe TOM Shop School Visits Teaching Resources Seminars and Corporate Events Group Visits Digital Experiences TOM Blog Olympic Language Live: Broadcasting the Olympic Games Serious Game search-form © 2012 / Comité International Olympique (CIO) / FURLONG, Christopher 24 Jul 2016 IOC News , Press Release , Fight against doping , RIO 2016 # Decision of the IOC Executive Board concerning the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 ##### The IOC Executive Board (EB) has today further studied the question of the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. In its deliberations, the IOC EB was guided by a fundamental rule of the Olympic Charter to protect clean athletes and the integrity of sport. The study included the discussion of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)'s Independent Person (IP) Report by Prof. Richard McLaren; the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 21 July 2016 concerning the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF); as well as the Olympic Charter and the World Anti-Doping Code. Given the urgency of the situation, with the Olympic Games Rio 2016 starting in 12 days, and the athletes' entry process already underway, the IOC EB had to take a preliminary decision with regard to the participation of Russian athletes in Rio de Janeiro. Prof. McLaren states in his report that it "fulfils partially the mandate of the Independent Person". This is why the IOC supports his request to continue and finalise his work. On the other hand, this situation leads to an urgency for the IOC which does not allow it sufficient time for hearings for affected athletes, officials and organisations. The IOC EB has given the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) the opportunity to present the case of the Russian athletes and the ROC. This was done by Mr Alexander Zhukov, ROC President, at the beginning of the EB telephone conference, which he left immediately following his presentation. During his presentation, Mr. Zhukov explained that the Russian Federation and the ROC guarantee full cooperation with all international organisations to shed light on the issue in every respect. He also guaranteed that the ROC commits to a complete and comprehensive restructuring of the Russian anti-doping system. In this context, he stressed that the ROC is committed to clean sport and would work towards guaranteeing clean sport in Russia. He further stated that all Russian athletes selected for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 have been tested over the last six months by foreign anti-doping agencies. Samples were taken by foreign doping control officers and the samples analysed in foreign laboratories. Russian athletes who participated in different competitions in all sports have submitted more than 3,000 doping samples. The vast majority of the results were negative. The IOC EB discussed the status of the ROC. In this respect, it took note of the fact that the IP Report made no findings against the ROC as an institution. The IOC EB took note of a letter dated 23 July 2016 from the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). In this letter the ISSF confirms having received from WADA information about the three "disappearing samples" concerning shooting. The ISSF states that these three samples had been entered, at the time they were reported, into WADA's ADAMS Results Management System as positives, and all the result management procedures have already been followed. On the basis of the Findings of the IP Report, all Russian athletes seeking entry to the Olympic Games Rio 2016 are considered to be affected by a system subverting and manipulating the anti-doping system. The IP Report indicates that, due to "the highly compressed timeline", the IP has "only skimmed the surface of the extensive data available". The IOC EB therefore came to the conclusion that this view cannot be restricted only to athletes from the 20 Olympic summer sports mentioned in the IP Report. Under these exceptional circumstances, Russian athletes in any of the 28 Olympic summer sports have to assume the consequences of what amounts to a collective responsibility in order to protect the credibility of the Olympic competitions, and the "presumption of innocence" cannot be applied to them. On the other hand, according to the rules of natural justice, individual justice, to which every human being is entitled, has to be applied. This means that each affected athlete must be given the opportunity to rebut the applicability of collective responsibility in his or her individual case. After deliberating, the IOC EB decided: 1. The IOC will not accept any entry of any Russian athlete in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 unless such athlete can meet the conditions set out below. 2. Entry will be accepted by the IOC only if an athlete is able to provide evidence to the full satisfaction of his or her International Federation (IF) in relation to the following criteria: • The IFs*, when establishing their pool of eligible Russian athletes, to apply the World Anti-Doping Code and other principles agreed by the Olympic Summit (21 June 2016). • The absence of a positive national anti-doping test cannot be considered sufficient by the IFs. • The IFs should carry out an individual analysis of each athlete's anti-doping record, taking into account only reliable adequate international tests, and the specificities of the athlete's sport and its rules, in order to ensure a level playing field. The IFs to examine the information contained in the IP Report, and for such purpose seek from WADA the names of athletes and National Federations (NFs) implicated. Nobody implicated, be it an athlete, an official, or an NF, may be accepted for entry or accreditation for the Olympic Games. • The IFs will also have to apply their respective rules in relation to the sanctioning of entire NFs. 3. The ROC is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction. 4. The IOC will accept an entry by the ROC only if the athlete's IF is satisfied that the evidence provided meets conditions 2 and 3 above and if it is upheld by an expert from the CAS list of arbitrators appointed by an ICAS Member, independent from any sports organisation involved in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. 5. The entry of any Russian athlete ultimately accepted by the IOC will be subject to a rigorous additional out-of-competition testing programme in coordination with the relevant IF and WADA. Any non-availability for this programme will lead to the immediate withdrawal of the accreditation by the IOC. Beyond these decisions, the IOC EB reaffirmed the provisional measures already taken on 19 July 2016. They remain in place until 31 December 2016, and will be reviewed by the EB in December 2016. Additional sanctions and measures may be imposed by the IOC following the final report of the IP and due legal procedure by the IOC Disciplinary Commission established on 19 July 2016 under the chairmanship of Mr Guy Canivet (Vice-Chair of the IOC Ethics Commission, former member of the French Constitutional Court and President of the French Cour de Cassation) and the IOC EB. The IOC EB reaffirms its serious concerns about the obvious deficiencies in the fight against doping. The IOC thus emphasises again its call to WADA to fully review their anti-doping system. The IOC will make its contribution to this review by proposing measures for clearer responsibilities, more transparency, better supervision procedures and more independence. * The IAAF has already established its eligibility pool with regard to Russian athletes. II. The IOC EB further studied the request by the Russian track and field athlete, Mrs Iuliia Stepanova, to compete in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 as a "neutral athlete". Since Mrs Stepanova declined to compete as a member of the ROC Team, the IOC EB had to consider the question of whether an exception to the rules of the Olympic Charter is possible and appropriate. Since this request has important ethical aspects, the IOC EB had asked the IOC Ethics Commission for its advice. The Ethics Commission has heard Mrs Stepanova and IAAF and ROC representatives. Mrs Stepanova is basing her request on her role as "whistle-blower" with regard to the manipulation of the anti-doping system and corruption involving the WADA-accredited Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) and the IAAF. The Ethics Commission applauds the contribution of Mrs Stepanova to the fight against doping. It put this contribution into the perspective of Mrs Stepanova's own long implication, of at least five years, in this doping system and the timing of her whistle-blowing, which came after the system did not protect her any longer following a positive test for which she was sanctioned for doping for the first time. After a careful evaluation of the arguments, the Ethics Commission gave the following advice to the IOC EB: "While it is true that Mrs Stepanova's testimony and public statements have made a contribution to the protection and promotion of clean athletes, fair play and the integrity and authenticity of sport, the Rules of the Olympic Charter related to the organisation of the Olympic Games run counter to the recognition of the status of neutral athlete. Furthermore, the sanction to which she was subject and the circumstances in which she denounced the doping practices which she had used herself, do not satisfy the ethical requirements for an athlete to enter the Olympic Games." The IOC EB accepted the advice of the IOC Ethics Commission, also taking into consideration its above-mentioned decision not to allow any Russian athlete who has ever been sanctioned for doping to participate in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Therefore, the IOC will not enter Mrs Stepanova as a competitor in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. However, the IOC EB would like to express its appreciation for Mrs Stepanova's contribution to the fight against doping and to the integrity of sport. Therefore the IOC invites Mrs Stepanova and her husband to the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Furthermore, the IOC is ready to support Mrs Stepanova so that she can continue her sports career and potentially join a National Olympic Committee. Lausanne, 24 July 2016 ## The International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers, which is committed to building a better world through sport. 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IOC News , Press Release , Fight against doping , RIO 2016 ## Related News IOC News ## Background Information to the decision of the IOC Executive Board concerning the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 24 Jul 2016 IOC News ## Statement of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee on the WADA Independent Person Report 19 Jul 2016 Quick links : RIO 2016 Lillehammer 2016 PyeongChang 2018 IOC News Tokyo 2020 Beijing 2022 Host City Election News Olympic Torch Relay YOG News Buenos Aires 2018 Lausanne 2020 back to top (meta data) TITLE: IOC sets up 3-person panel to rule on Russian entries | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com 🔎🚘 # IOC sets up 3-person panel to rule on Russian entries By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer | 3:25 p.m. July 30, 2016 International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives for the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP) The Associated Press International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives for the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP) International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives for the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP)The Associated Press+Read Caption International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives for the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP) International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP)The Associated Press+Read Caption International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP) International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP)The Associated Press+Read Caption International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Pool Photo via AP) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A three-person International Olympic Committee panel will make a final ruling on which individual Russian athletes are allowed to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Games. The IOC's ruling executive board, meeting Saturday for the final time before the opening of the games next Friday, said the panel will decide on the entry of Russian athletes whose names have been forwarded to compete by their international sports federations and approved by an independent arbitrator. "This panel will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "We want to make it absolutely clear that we are the ones making the final call." The move comes amid a doping scandal that has led to the exclusion of more than 100 Russian athletes connected to state-sponsored cheating. More than 250 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete by the federations. The panel will have to make its ruling before the opening ceremony, just six days away. "We're working on a very, very tight timeline," Adams said. "It has to be finished by Friday at the very latest." The panel will consist of three executive board members: Turkey's Ugur Erdener, chairman of the IOC medical commission; Germany's Claudia Bokel, head of the athletes' commission; and Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., a vice president of the modern pentathlon federation. Adams said the panel will review every athlete cleared by the federations, but would not reopen the cases of those who have been barred. An arbitrator from the Court of Arbitration for Sport will make an initial ruling before the final decision goes to the IOC panel. "This review board panel will look at every single decision, every single athlete, to make sure the IOC is happy with the decision that's been taken," Adams said. "It's very important that the IOC makes the final decision based on independent advice." Saturday's meeting came less than a week after the IOC board decided not to ban Russia's entire team from the games because of state-sponsored doping. Rejecting calls by more than a dozen anti-doping agencies for a complete ban on Russia, the IOC left it to the federations to vet which athletes could compete or not. The Russians banned so far include the 67 track and field athletes barred as a whole by the IAAF, and more than 30 others rejected under new IOC eligibility criteria. Russia's eight-member weightlifting team was kicked out of the games on Friday for what the international federation called "extremely shocking" doping results that brought the sport into "disrepute." The IOC has been roundly criticized by anti-doping bodies, athletes groups and Western media for not imposing a total ban on Russia. Pressure for the full sanction followed a World Anti-Doping Agency report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren that accused Russia's sports ministry of overseeing a vast doping conspiracy involving the country's summer and winter sports athletes. Bach has defended the decision as one that protects individual athletes who have not been implicated in doping. ### Top Stories #### Healthy Melvin Gordon back with confidence #### Too much history for Bosa, Chargers to agree soon? #### Rivers' scamper, undrafted OL stand out #### East Village South: Non-stadium plan revealed #### Run with this Chargers training camp preview ### Trending May be too much history for Bosa, Chargers to agree soonLuke Aikins becomes first skydiver to successfully jump without a parachute, landing in a net in CalPadres, Braves agree on Matt Kemp-Hector Olivera tradePolice officer killed, another wounded in Southcrest shootingRivers shows mobility; rookie blocker draws notice ### Popular Videos #### Clinton: Trump should set off "alarm bells" #### Taking the flotation tank dive #### Residents turn out to #HugThePolice #### Architect Rob Quigley on stadium plans #### Vet's Choice #### UCSD to explore, digitize 100 shipwrecks in Bermuda
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Concerns and controversies.:Russian doping scandal.
Media attention began growing in December 2014 when German broadcaster ARD reported on state-sponsored doping in Russia, comparing it to doping in East Germany. In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a report and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspended Russia indefinitely from world track and field events. The United Kingdom Anti-Doping agency later assisted WADA with testing in Russia. In June 2016, they reported that they were unable to fully carry out their work and noted intimidation by armed Federal Security Service (FSB) agents. After a Russian former lab director made allegations about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, WADA commissioned an independent investigation led by Richard McLaren. McLaren's investigation found corroborating evidence, concluding in a report published in July 2016 that the Ministry of Sport and the FSB had operated a "state-directed failsafe system" using a "disappearing positive [test] methodology" (DPM) from "at least late 2011 to August 2015". 
 In response to these findings, WADA announced that RUSADA should be regarded as non-compliant with respect to the World Anti-Doping Code and recommended that Russia be banned from competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics.