JoshMartini007

At the half way point South Korea's Kim Woojin is just off of world record pace.

Zimbabwe is having a bad ranking round, he's usually better than this

Zimbabwe qualified over Cameroon due to the away goal rule. Nigeria didn't even reach the final round, losing to Equatorial Guinea after extra time. Equatorial Guinea also has a decent team (better than South Africa, who you said isn't that bad) and it would have been great to see them here. I wonder if FIFA will decrease the spot for Africa next games, giving them 1.5 spots and having them play an intercontinental match against the second place team from Asia (they will only have one spot since Japan will be hosts)

It is, but you can say the same thing about water polo, field hockey or rugby sevens. There are enough strong teams and Europe has teams like Italy and the Netherlands which have had decent results. The downside is that only six teams will compete.

They allow a fair trial. You can't punish a person twice and that is exactly what the IOC told sport federations to do. If she was implicated in the report then there would be an argument for her not to compete. Right now she's no different than Tyson Gay.

CAS is starting to rule for the swimmers which committed previous doping violation, letting them compete at the Olympics. Morozov and Lobintsev have been cleared, Efimova is still waiting. As I said before this was probably the easiest decision CAS has ever made, Osaka rule and everything. Link

Banning ex-dopers now makes a bit of sense if this is true. It would have been the easiest reverse decision the CAS would have ever made, of course they can't make that decision unless someone appeals.

So we are still waiting for golf and weightlifting to give out their ruling. Here are the net quota reductions from each sport, assuming I got everything correct. Aquatics – 7 Athletics – Full Ban Canoeing – 5 Cycling – 6 Modern Pentathlon – 1 Rowing – 22 Wrestling – 1 In modern pentathlon they also banned a reserve athlete (though it doesn’t count), in rowing I counted the coxwains since they can’t compete (though technically they aren’t banned) and in sailing Russia lost an athlete, but they are allowed to replace him. For other sports no action has been taken.

So by my count we are still waiting for cycling, golf, gymnastics, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling

The conspiracy theorist in me likes to think that the IOC made a rule that wouldn’t hold up in court just so they can say they did something, but very little actually happens. I mean we just saw Tae-hwan Park win a CAS battle against the South Korean Olympic Committee which imposed a similar ban on him.

That’s for the CAS to decide, but any proper judge would side with the athletes on this one, you don’t punish people twice for one offense. Now for the people who were implicated in the report they will probably remain banned.

Of course, but only because the IOC tried to implement the Osaka Rule again, any athlete could have appealed that restriction.

It's more likely 22, I have no idea where Senegal would get 3 more athletes

Looks like FINA has announced seven swimmers which will not compete, these are swimmers whom have previously been given a doping ban and ones whom were implicated in the WADA report. The other aquatic sports will not be affected. Athletes withdrawn by the ROC: Mikhail Dovgalyuk Yulia Efimova Natalia Lovtcova Anastasia Krapivina (Marathon Swimming) Athletes appearing in the WADA IP Report: Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov Daria Ustinova For marathon swimming the quota should go to Hungary's Anna Olasz (assuming there's enough time for her to accept)

Why bother having limits if people are just going to be added?

Considering they caught Sharapova almost immediately after the Meldonium ban (she failed her test at the Australian Open, less than a month after the drug was banned) and she's based in the United States this supports my previous point that tennis players are very unlikely to be part of the scandal. Of course this doesn't stop athletes from doping outside of the government helping, but if we're going to accuse them of that then we could accuse all tennis players.

Honestly, tennis is the least likely sport to be affected by this scandal. There's like two ATP and two WTA tournaments in that country. Do the players even stay in Russia for an extended period of time?

The IOC had that rule (Osaka Rule), but it was overturned by the CAS, like most jurisdictions you only get punished once for the crime you commit. This is why I think this will be overturned, assuming someone tries to fight it.

3. The ROC is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction. This can easily be overturned, all they have to do is cite CAS's ruling on the Osaka Rule

Not surprised, we'll probably see officials getting banned and then leaving the individual federations to decide if they want a full ban (or something like what IAAF is doing).

The list on the ITF website is the final (unless Russia gets a blanket ban)

Is the women's list only showing men for anyone else?

Here's the report if anyone wants to read it.

Furthermore, the IOC has called on WADA to extend the mandate of McLaren to communicate the names of Russian athletes implicated in the report and the alleged manipulation of the doping tests performed by the Sochi Laboratory to the respective IFs and, where appropriate, to the IOC, in order to "allow them to take swift action". This will be interesting and will likely be Russia's best hope to compete at the games

From what I gather the IOC is suppose to make a decision today on what to do with Russia. My prediction is that they won't be banned (outside of athletics and maybe weightlifting), but we'll see.