The Russian Olympic Committee today met to discuss a number of matters, but most importantly to endorse the team selections in all sports. Andrei Rodionenko will announce the names formally tomorrow, but in the meantime, we already have the official list and more. It pretty much confirms what we already know - in Russian alphabetical order according to the list - Ablyazin, Belyavski, Ignatyev, Kuksenkov, Melnikova, Mustafina, Nagorny, Paseka, Spiridonova, Tutkhalyan. Reserves - Afanasyeva, Kapitonova, Polyashov, Stretovich. You can access the full list for all sports here - http://olympteka.ru/olymp/rio2016/news/1367.html - with many thanks to our anonymous contributor. Tomorrow the Court of Arbitration in Sport will issue its findings about the legality of the banning of Russia's entire Track and Field athletics team from the Rio Olympics. The IOC will take the CAS findings into account when making a decision about how they will act on the revelations in ...
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