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Out sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are at odds over discrepancies in the handling of Olympics doping cases after
Berlin (dpa) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has opened proceedings into the exclusion of all Russian track-and-field athletes from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.A final decision will be reached by July 21 at the latest, the CAS said in a press release.Sixty-eight Russian athletes and the Russian National Olympic Committee have turned to the CAS as a court of last instance in an attempt to overturn the Olympic ban handed out by the IAAF, the sport‘s international ruling body.
Berlin (dpa) - Four gold medallists from Kazakhstan are among 10 weightlifters who have been caught doping in retests of samples from the 2012 Olympics, the sport‘s ruling body IWF said.The IWF said late Wednesday that Olympic champions Ilya Ilyin (men‘s 94kg), and the women‘s champions Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg) tested positive, all for the steroid stanozolol, and Ilyin also for testosterone.Three athletes from Belarus, and one each from Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine were also caught.
Kienbaum (dpa) - German Olympic discus champion Robert Harting on Tuesday harshly criticized International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach over the decision not impose a doping-related blanket ban on Russian athletes for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Berlin (dpa) - Members of the International Olympic Committee executive board which decides Sunday on a possible exclusion of Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.President:Thomas Bach (Germany)Vice-presidents:Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco) Craig Reedie (Britain) John Coates (Australia) Zaiqing Yu (China)Members:Wu Ching Kuo (Taiwan) Rene Fasel (Switzerland) Patrick Hickey (Ireland) Claudia Bokel (Germany) Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain) Sergey Bubka (Ukraine) Willi Kaltschmitt Lujan (Guatemala) Anita DeFrantz (United States) Ugur Erdener (Turkey) Gunilla Lindberg (Sweden)IOC director:Christ...