We asked the IOC humbly that Yuliya, as she would never be nominated by the Russian Olympic Committee, be permitted to compete as a neutral athlete at the Games in Rio.
"Greece originally had 94 athletes across 19 sports in Rio for the Games".
The Greek newspaper Kathimerini speculated that the athlete is swimmer Theodora Giareni, who in the past won a silver medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, as well as competed in London at the 2012 Olympics.
One of the athletes who could take advantage of the new ruling is whistleblower Yulia Stepanova who, together with her husband, ignited the Russian doping scandal by revealing the extent of the state-backed doping programme.
"I couldn't be more proud and relieved".
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Irish boxer Michael O'Reilly has already become the first athlete to have failed a test at Rio 2016, but is thought to be still here in a separate part of the Athletes' Village to his team-mates.
In its latest decision, the CAS ruled in favour of an appeal against the ban by four-times breaststroke world champion Yulia Efimova as well as rowers Anastasia Karabelshikova and Ivan Podshivalov.
Wrestler Viktor Lebedev and sailor Pavel Sozykin were waiting to hear the result of appeals to CAS against their exclusion from Rio. Russian cyclist Ilnur Zakarin was cleared for the Rio Olympics but he will not participate as he had no possibility to prepare for the Games.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has criticised WADA s handling of the crisis and said the anti-doping system needs a total overhaul. equilibrioinformativo.com
