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- Updated: July 27, 2016
Though a Court of Arbitration case is pending for Yuliya Efimova*, she and the six Russians, including Vladimir Morozov, barred by FINA from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been excluded from what the international swimming federation today describes as the “final Entry Lists” for all aquatic disciplines for the Games in Brazil.
Efimova*, Natalia Lovtcova**, Anastasia Krapivina* (Marathon Swimming) and Mikhail Dovgalyuk* were excluded by FINA as a result of previous doping positives.
Nikita Lobintsev, Morozov and Daria K. Ustinova* were excluded by FINA as swimmers named in the wake of the WADA IP – McLaren – Report that listed a wave of ‘disappeared’ test results.
The specifics of the ‘disappeared’ cases of Morozov, Lobintsev and Ustinova are unknown but are likely to make the public domain if there is a challenge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
While Efimova’s entourage have declared that they will take the matter to the CAS, Morozov chose to pen an Open Letter to FINA president Julio Maglione on Facebook declaring that he was clean, always had been and there was no reason why he should be excluded from the Rio Olympic Games.
FINA appear to disagree: today they issued ‘final’ entry lists without his name. The entry lists have been criticised within swimming circles for containing …
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