MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian cyclists are suing the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and investigator Richard McLaren over their exclusion from the Rio 2016 Olympics, their coach said on Tuesday. The road cyclists were among the Russians banned from competing after a WADA-commissioned report by Canadian lawyer McLaren, found evidence of widespread doping and manipulation of doping tests by Russian athletes and officials. The cyclists - Kirill Sveshnikov, Dmitry Strakhov and Dmitry Sokolov - do not appear in the McLaren report, which said that 26 positive doping tests by Russian cyclists had been covered up. However, to be able to compete in Rio, Russian athletes had to fulfil a series of criteria defined by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC said that "nobody implicated" in the McLaren report could be accepted for entry or accredited for the Games, among other criteria.

Source: The Star September 12, 2017 12:33 UTC