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Rio 2016: Swimming & rowing ban 10 Russians from Rio after IOC report
- Updated: July 25, 2016
Yulia Efimova won gold in the women’s 100m breaststroke at the World Championships in August
Seven Russian swimmers and three rowers have been banned from competing at the Rio Olympic Games by their sports’ governing bodies.
Swimming’s Fina and rowing’s Fisa took action after the International Olympic Committee let sports federations decide if athletes should miss the Games.
That was in response to a report on state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Anti-doping groups had called for a blanket ban on Russian athletes for next month’s Rio Games.
Last week’s McLaren Report – commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency – said figures in Russia’s ministry of sport and its secret service …
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