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Canoeing Removes Five Russian Athletes from Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has taken swift action to remove five Russian Canoe Sprint athletes from the Rio Olympic Games following the release of additional information naming those implicated by the McLaren Report.
In each case the ICF will impose an immediate suspension pending further investigation making the offending athletes ineligible to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
There are 27 cases from the 25 Canoe Sprint athletes named in report, 11 have already been sanctioned.
Simon Toulson, ICF
Reallocation of Olympic Canoe Sprint Places
This is a rundown of the reallocation process for Rio 2016 Olympic Canoe Sprint places following suspensions for Romanian and Belarusian athletes.
All reallocations are applied to the races that the quota was originally allocated; in all cases for Romanian and Belarus athletes qualified through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan, Italy.
Romanian K4 Men 1000m out (Trian Neagu, Catalin Turceag, Daniel Burciu, Petrus Gavrila)
Germany K4 1000m Men was the next to qualify but they turned down place which then moved to the Italian K4 Men...Read more
