FIG Will Soon Decide Which Gymnasts Can Compete


UPDATED: TWENTY NEW NAMES ADDED Federations are adhering to the IOC's strict guidelines and are effectively cutting away at the size of Team Russia, day by day. This is only step 1. All the athletes the IF's present as clean must then get tested by WADA when they arrive. Since Sunday's decision, 41 athletes have been banned, so in addition to athletics, Team Russia has been depleted by 30 percent...
                                                                                                                                                                       The FIG has received a briefing from the IOC and released a statement regarding the Russian gymnasts, half of whom are already in Rio (rhythmic and trampoline will arrive on Thursday). Their statement reads: "The FIG will - as soon as possible - establish the "Pool of Russian eligible athletes" as per the criteria stated in points 2 and 3 of the abovementioned IOC Executive Board decision, and will have it verified as requested in point 4, then forward it to all concerned."

The IOC Executive Board on Sunday decided not to suspend the entire Russian team from the 2016 Games , leaving the right to determine who will be able to perform at the Olympic Games up to each international governing federation. Because of the additional stipulations put forth by the IOC- namely that past dopers cannot compete even if they've served their time and are clean- many careers beyond the athletics department have been terminated. I will continue to update the numbers of Russian athletes who find that their dreams have reached the end of the road. The process is particularly sadistic because the athletes are not being told in person about their exclusion, but are hearing that their names were not put forward by the ROC through media. Some of them were packed and ready to depart.; I know the timeline is tight but shame on ROC for not handling this better...
                                                                                                                                                                       Pentathlon- 2 athletes
Three other pentathletes have qualified. There are no team medals for modern pentathlon at the Games, so all athletes compete as individuals.The two banned athletes were caught up in “disappearing positive methodology”, whereby positive drug test results were falsely recorded as negative. They are:
Maxim Kustov (Russia's highest ranked pentathlete, ranked 7th best in the world) 
Ilya Frolov (2008 Olympian)

Rowing- 25 athletes (updated info)
Russia's Rowing team has long been in doping trouble with FISA. In 2008 the entire federation was disqualified for a year because seven oarsmen had been caught doping. The year before, at a hotel the national team was staying in, the cleaning lady discovered equipment used for blood transfusion in two rooms. FGSR plans to sue CAS if FISA doesn't allow two members to compete. I'd say it's a dead cause, as is Isinbayeva's suit, since the environment isn't pro-Russian right now and most of the world tends to think Russia got off easy. No court will be lenient, even if something is unfair (in the case of Isinbayeva). The first three listed athletes are a part of the 2007-08 doping scandal. The remaining rowers and two coxswains are not considered to have participated in doping, but do not meet the extended conditions established by the IOC. Basically, they have been banned because they haven't been tested enough times outside of Russia!
Ivan Podshivalova 
Anastasia Karabelishikovu 
Ivan Balandin
(I have not been able to obtain the names of the additional banned rowers. If anyone has found this information please comment)

Volleyball- 1 athlete
OMG, this man has a similar circumstance to Kolya and he's been banned!!! He tested positive for meldonium in April and then FIVB lifted the suspension because WADA announced in mid-April that a concentration of less than one microgram of meldonium in an athlete’s body, whose doping tests were conducted before March 1, was acceptable. But the latest IOC decree overrules all earlier decisions regarding doping cases, so now I'm worried about Kolya. Another dream bites the dust:
Alexander Markin (2015 Euro Games bronze medalist)

Swimming- 7 athletes 
Among the seven athletes removed from the team, six of them had a legitimate chance at one medal or more. The athletes removed are:
Michael Dovgaluk (2008 Olympic silver medalist in the 800m relay) 
Yuliya Efimova (multiple world champion in the 50m breaststroke, reigning world champion in the 100m), 
Natalia Lovtsova (London Olympian, 1st place finisher at Russian Trials in 50m)
Anastasia Krapivina (5th place at the 2015  World Championships, winner of the Russian Open Water Champs)
Nikita Lobintsev (2008 Olympic silver medalist in 800m, 2012 bronze in the 400m) 
Vladimir Morozov (2012 Olympic bronze in 400m, multiple world medals, key player in Russia's 400m team relay) 
Daria Ustinova (ranked 5th best breaststroker in the world, 4th at 2015 Worlds)

Wrestling- 1 athlete
This athlete was favored to be in serious contention for a medal:
Victor Lebedev (two time world Champion 2015 Euro Games winner)

Weightlifting- 2 athletes
One of these athletes, Tatiana, doped over ten years ago and has been clean since then):
Tatiana Kashirina (two world records and three junior world records, 4 time world champion in +75kg, 2012 Olympic silver medalist)
Anastasia Romanova (European bronze medalist in 75kg, 

Cycling- 3 athletes
Zakarin was banned in 2009 for steroids and has tested clean since his comeback in late 2011.
Sergei Shilov (has won two professional level races)
Olga Zabelinskaya (two time Olympic bronze medalist in 2012)
Ilnur Zakarin (champion in the tour de romandie, winner of stage 17 of the tour de france)


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  1. Tatiana Kashirina nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo she has been wining gold since 2012 Olympics with world records

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    1. FGSR?? what is this
      i hope and i think this drama will make russian sport stronger and cleaner

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    2. The FGSR is the Russian Rowing Federation, I got it from an R-sport article. I have no idea what the 'G' stands for but it's also in their email contact, listed on the FISA website, so I assume it's correct: info@fgsr.ru

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