Five sprint canoeists and two modern pentathletes representing the Russian Federation have been banned from competing at the Rio Olympics this summer after reportedly being implicated in the World Anti-Doping Agency report into state-sponsored doping in the country.
Elena Aniushina, Natalia Podolskaia, Alexander Dyachenko, Andrey Kraitor and Alexey Korovashkov have all been suspended by the International Canoe Federation pending further investigation, but there would be no federation-wide ban, according to an ICF statement.
Meanwhile, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) said that Maksim Kustov and Ilia Frolov had also been named in the WADA-commissioned McLaren report, but the three other athletes named in Russia's squad would be allowed to compete.
Seventeen athletes have now been banned since the International Olympic Committee said that individual federations should decide if Russians can compete.
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Giuseppe Labellarte
Giuseppe Labellarte
