The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reported Wednesday that it has dismissed the appeal by Russian Weightlifting Federation against the decision of the international (IWF) to exclude the entire team of that country of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.
The Russian Federation appealed to CAS, which has analyzed the case on Wednesday and agreed to dismiss the appeal. The court understands that the rules of the IWF allows you to sanction a national federation "for its related or associated to doping behavior."
On July 29, the IWF excluded the Russian team full of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro therefore involved in doping cases as being mentioned in the report McLaren.
"The integrity of weightlifting has been seriously damaged many times and multiple levels by the Russians, so the sanction has been applied to preserve the status of the sport" he reported that day the IWF in a statement.
The Russian Olympic Committee (COR) had selected eight lifters, two of which were positive (Tatiana and Anastasia Romanova Kashirina) and four others are cited by the McLaren report, which denounced doping state in Russia.
The IWF recalled "the surprising and disappointing statistics Russian lifters" on doping, which is confirmed because seven Russians have tested positive for the repetition of the analysis of the Beijing Olympics and London.
For this reason, the federation nor any Russian referee invited to the Olympic competition in Rio.
On July 27, the IWF eleven new cases reported positive during the London Games, which include Russian Natalya Zabolotnaya, silver in the category up to 75 kilos, and Alexandr Ivanov, silver -94.
In addition to the 67 members of the track team from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) give way to international federations decision on Russian athletes have been excluded, among others, swimmers, cyclists, rowers, canoeists and now weightlifters.
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