You're reading: BBC: Rio 2016 Olympics: Russians ‘have cleanest team’ as 271 athletes cleared to compete

BBC: Rio 2016 Olympics: Russians ‘have cleanest team’ as 271 athletes cleared to compete

By BBC.

Published Aug. 6, 2016 at 11:03 am

An overview of Russia's Angelina Melnikova practicing on the floor of the women's Artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Arena on August 4, 2016 ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Photo by AFP

Russia will have 271 athletes eligible to compete at the Rio Games, says the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a state-sponsored doping scandal. Russia's Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov said his country will have "the cleanest team" at the Games.