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- Updated: August 4, 2016
Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, two of the Russian swimmers barred from the Olympics by FINA following IOC instruction in the wake of the WADA IP McLaren Report, have been cleared to race, according to the international swimming federation.
The news was broken by a Russian lawyer days ago but at the time FINA denied that there had been any change in circumstance. Now, news agencies are reporting FINA as confirming their flip-flop by stating: they’re back in.
Early news reports suggest that the all-clear for Morozov and Lobintsev, both based in the United States and part of a 31-strong Russian squad named for action in Rio, will take the team size down to 26, with five swimmers still barred.
The reinstatement of the two Russians, if confirmed, returns two …
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