A decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today will see two cyclists barred from competing in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month.
Following the publication of the independent McLaren report into state-sanctioned doping and cover-ups that revealed more than 20 'disappearing doping positives' in cycling and more than 100 in athletics and weightlifting, the IOC Executive Board announced it would limit Russia's participation in the Rio Games.
The country escaped a wholesale ban of all athletes, but the IOC EB decided that the Russian Olympic Committee "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."
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That condition would apply to both Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha), who in 2009 served a two-year ban for the anabolic steroid methandienone, and Olga Zabelinskaya (BePink), who earlier this year accepted a retroactive 18-month ban for a banned stimulant octopamine. Zabelinskaya won two bronze medals in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
"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 IOC decision read. "The IP Report indicates that, due to 'the highly compressed timeline', the IP has 'only skimmed the surface of the extensive data available'."
Before the 2012 Olympic Games, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that a similar ban applied by national federations, known as the "Osaka Rule" violated both the Olympic charter and the WADA code, and overturned lifetime Olympic bans of athletes such as David Millar.
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