The president of Coni Giovanni Malagò sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee to officially withdraw the candidacy - The attack on the Rays: "Choice by irresponsible people. Do you realize what a fool we have made at an international level?"
The International Olympic Committee has established that Russia will be able to participate in the Rio Games despite the doping scandal - The decision on which athletes to admit to the Olympics will be up to the individual international sports federations, which will evaluate on a case-by-case basis.
The IOC has carried out new analyzes on 1.243 test tubes of athletes participating in the last two editions of the Summer Games: the new positives would be 45 and concern 4 nations in 8 different sports - President Bach: "New checks also at…
According to the International Olympic Committee, the presence of each athlete in Rio 2016 "should be decided by the international federation to which they belong on the basis of their own anti-doping rules".