IOC Says Russia Will Compete in Rio Olympics. Opens Door For Track and Field Athletes

The IOC says Russian and Kenyan athletes will be evaluated individually to determine their eligibility to compete. A ban was upheld against Russian track and field, but not for the whole Russian Olympic team.

IOC President Thomas Bach said “clean” athletes are allowed to compete under the Russian flag in Rio and if the IAAF allows “special clearance” for any Russian track and field athletes, they will compete under the Russian flag, not under an Olympic or neutral one flag.

“If athletes qualified then they will compete as the members of the team of the Russian Olympic Committee because only a national Olympic committee can enter athletes to the Olympic Games… Contrary to the national federation of track and field the Russian Olympic Committee is not suspended.”

#IOC president Thomas Bach says that any Russian athletes competing at #Rio2016 would do so under the Russian flag

— Athletics Weekly (@AthleticsWeekly) June 21, 2016

This may pave the way for various Russian track and field stars to compete in the games.

BREAKING: Russian athletes must be evaluated individually to determine eligibility – IOC https://t.co/hXhJECTwFL pic.twitter.com/a3ujF1p074

— RT Sport (@rtsportnews) June 21, 2016

The IOC did make a statement saying it supports the ruling by the IAAF on the disqualification of Russian athletes on doping charges so as to not completely throw the IAAF under the bus. Bach said…

“The Summit confirmed the respect and the approval and the support for the decision having been taken by IAAF last Friday.”

No doubt the IOC’s decisions is a little bit of justice and sanity in what si fast becoming an insanely politicized sporting world. Yes I know some Russian athletes were caught doping…but so were these athletes from their respective countries, but you did not see the IOC almost ban the entire country, or the IAAF ban the entire Track and Field team.

This is a list of Olympic medals stripped by the IOC, the governing body of the Olympics (via Wikipedia):

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Medal	Event
1968 Summer Olympics	Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall)	Sweden	Bronze	Modern pentathlon team
1972 Summer Olympics	Bakhaavaa Buidaa	Mongolia	Silver	Judo, lightweight
	Jaime Huelamo	Spain	Bronze	Cycling, individual road race
	Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek)	Netherlands	Bronze	Cycling, team time trial
	Rick DeMont (See below)	United States	Gold	Swimming, Men’s 400 m freestyle
1976 Summer Olympics	Blagoy Blagoev	Bulgaria	Silver	Weightlifting, Men’s 82.5 kg
	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	Poland	Gold	Weightlifting, Men’s 67.5 kg
	Valentin Khristov	Bulgaria	Gold	Weightlifting, Men’s 100 kg
1984 Summer Olympics	Tomas Johansson	Sweden	Silver	Wrestling, Greco-Roman super-heavyweight
1984 Summer Olympics	Martti Vainio	Finland	Silver	Athletics, Men’s 10,000 m
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria	Gold	Weightlifting, Men’s 56 kg
	Angell Guenchev	Bulgaria	Gold	Weightlifting, Men’s 67.5 kg
	Ben Johnson	Canada	Gold	Athletics, Men’s 100 m
	Andor Szanyi	Hungary	Gold	Weightlifting, Men’s 100 kg
1992 Summer Olympics	Ibragim Samadov	Unified Team	Bronze	Weightlifting, Men’s light-heavyweight
2000 Summer Olympics	Ashot Danielyan	Armenia	Bronze	Weightlifting, Men’s 105 kg
	Izabela Dragneva	Bulgaria	Gold	Weightlifting, Women’s 48 kg
	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	Silver	Weightlifting, Men’s 56 kg
	Marion Jones	United States	Gold	Athletics, Women’s 100 m
	Marion Jones	United States	Gold	Athletics, Women’s 200 m
	Marion Jones	United States	Gold	Athletics, Women’s 4 × 400 m relay
	Marion Jones	United States	Bronze	Athletics, Women’s long jump
	Marion Jones	United States	Bronze	Athletics, Women’s 4 × 100 m relay
	Alexander Leipold	Germany	Gold	Wrestling, Men’s 76 kg
	Sevdalin Minchev	Bulgaria	Bronze	Weightlifting, Men’s 62 kg
	Andreea Răducan	Romania	Gold	Gymnastics, Women’s individual all-round
	Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew and Jerome Young)	United States	Gold	Athletics, Men’s 4 × 400 m relay
	Gymnastic team (Dong Fangxiao)	China	Bronze	Gymnastics – Women’s artistic team all-around
	Lance Armstrong	United States	Bronze	Cycling – Men’s road time trial
2002 Winter Olympics	Alain Baxter	United Kingdom	Bronze	Alpine Skiing, Men’s giant slalom
	Olga Danilova	Russia	Gold	Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 5km + 5km combined pursuit
	Olga Danilova	Russia	Silver	Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 10 km
	Larisa Lazutina	Russia	Gold	Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 30 km
	Larisa Lazutina	Russia	Silver	Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 15 km
	Larisa Lazutina	Russia	Silver	Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
	Johann Muehlegg	Spain	Gold	Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 50 km
	Johann Muehlegg	Spain	Gold	Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 30 km freestyle
	Johann Muehlegg	Spain	Gold	Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit
2004 Summer Olympics	Adrián Annus	Hungary	Gold	Athletics, Men’s hammer throw
	Yuriy Bilonog	Ukraine	Gold	Athletics, Men’s shot put
	Crystal Cox	United States	Gold	Athletics, Women’s 4 × 400 m relay
	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	Gold	Athletics, Men’s discus throw
	Ferenc Gyurkovics	Hungary	Silver	Weightlifting, Men’s 105 kg
	Tyler Hamilton	United States	Gold	Cycling, Men’s road time trial
	Irina Korzhanenko	Russia	Gold	Athletics, Women’s shot put
	Svetlana Krivelyova	Russia	Bronze	Athletics, Women’s shot put
	Cian O’Connor	Ireland	Gold	Equestrian, show jumping
	Oleg Perepetchenov	Russia	Bronze	Weightlifting, Men’s 77 kg
	Leonidas Sampanis	Greece	Bronze	Weightlifting, Men’s 62 kg
	Equestrian team (Ludger Beerbaum)	Germany	Gold	Equestrian, team show jumping
	Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko)	Ukraine	Bronze	Rowing, Women’s quadruple sculls
	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	Silver	Athletics, Men’s hammer throw
	Irina Yatchenko	Belarus	Bronze	Athletics, Women’s discus throw
2006 Winter Olympics	Olga Pyleva	Russia	Silver	Biathlon, Women’s individual
2008 Summer Olympics	Ara Abrahamian	Sweden	Bronze	Wrestling, Greco-Roman 84 kg
	Jong Su Kim	North Korea	Bronze	Shooting, Men’s 10 m air pistol
	Jong Su Kim	North Korea	Silver	Shooting, Men’s 50 m air pistol
	Lyudmyla Blonska	Ukraine	Silver	Athletics, Women’s heptathlon
	Equestrian team (Tony André Hansen)	Norway	Bronze	Equestrian, team show jumping
	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	Gold	Athletics, Men’s 1500 m
	Davide Rebellin	Italy	Silver	Cycling, Men’s road race
	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	Bronze	Athletics, Men’s Shot Put
2012 Summer Olympics	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	Gold	Athletics, Women’s shot put
	Darya Pishchalnikova	Russia	Silver	Athletics, Women’s discus throw
	Soslan Tigiev	Uzbekistan	Bronze	Wrestling, Men’s freestyle 74 kg
	Tyson Gay	United States	Silver	Athletics, Men’s 4×100 metres relay
	Asli Cakir Alptekin	Turkey	Gold	Athletics, Women’s 1500 m

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