Federations are afraid substantial damages insists over Russia’s Olympic Games restriction

In an interview with the BBC, Russias celebrated whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova banned from vying by the IOC owing to the rule said she was convinced Russian athletes who had doped would still be present in Rio.

On Tuesday the International Modern Pentathlon Union said Maxim Kustov and Ilya Frolov were mentioned in McLarens report last week as having allegedly had positive tests covered up by Russian authorities and will therefore not be in Rio.

Five Russian canoeists, including the Olympic champion Alexander Dyachenko, who won gold in the three men double kayak 200 m at London 2012, were also banned after being was mentioned in McLarens investigation into how Russian state officials allegedly intervened to cover up hundreds of failed drug tests. World Rowing said it had excluded 17 Russians, leaving only six free to compete.

The International Shooting Sport Federation has decided to allow 18 Russians to compete. The International Judo Federation, which lists Vladimir Putin as its honorary president, said it would allow all 11 Russian judoka to fight in Rio.

All those athletes have been tested starting from September last year until the end of May, on many occasions, at many international judo events , not in Russia, abroad from Russia, said its president, Marius Vizer. There was no penalty , no negative evidence. We dont take into consideration any analysis or tests made in Russia, because for us it is not relevant.

World Sailing said it had passed six Russians as clear to compete. One athlete, Pavel Sozykin, was denied eligibility based on the findings of the McLaren report. As Sozykin competes in the 470 Mens Class, which is a two-person racing classification, World Sailing has recommended the Russian Olympic Committee will have the opportunity to nominate a late replacing, it said.

A sports governance expert, Roger Pielke Jr, has calculated 119 Russians have been approved by their federations pending ratification by the IOC and an independent Cas assessor to compete. Thirteen international federations with qualified athletes are still to report.

As the floodgates started to open to allow Russian athletes to compete, the Guardian also learned the IOC appears to have contradicted its rules on banning a specific country from competing if it has multiple anti-doping violations. Wadas recommended regulations for international federations nation it can take action against a member country for fails to comply with anti-doping regulations.

In the case of the International Weightlifting Federation, it specifically wrote a clause into its own anti-doping regulations saying that if more than nine athletes from a member country tested positive beyond its own perimeters, then they could be suspended from the Olympic Games that followed.

The IOC has to specifically agree the qualifying rules and did so. The Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation then fell foul of the rule and was banned from Rio, with its appeal being rejected at Cas.

Critics of the IOCs approach have pointed to the fact the rules it approved for the IWF appear to be completely counter to the decision it took in not directing all 28 federations to ban Russia from the Rio Games outright.