271 Athletes from Russia passed and ready to compete in Olympics!

International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that 271 athletes will be allowed to compete in this Olympic, which is more than 70% of its original 389 athletes.

Russia’s Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov promised that Russia will have “the cleanest team” at the Games.

“The Russian team may have experienced the toughest checks of the Olympics, because they had to go through multiple tests and checked,” said Zhukov.

“On top of all that, Russian athletes are going through additional testing which is taking place at the Olympic Village.

“So, as of now, the Russian team is probably the cleanest in Rio.”

Zhukov said it was a “flagrant injustice” that some Russian athletes would not be in Rio.

He said: “Athletes such as Yelena Isinbayeva and Sergey Shubenkov who have never been associated with the issue of doping and who are absolutely clean cannot take part in the Olympics Games, but many sportsmen like, for example, the American runner Justin Gatlin, who have served doping bans, will.”

Isinbayeva won Olympic gold in the women’s pole vault at London 2012 while Shubenkov is the world 110m hurdles champion.

Currently, there will only be two Russia Olympics team that is Athletics & Weightlifting that will be completely banned, and 7 others teams which will experience a partial ban, the outline is as below: