The qualifying round of the men's team pursuit is Thursday. Cycling's governing body, the UCI, told The Associated Press that it consulted with the IOC before reallocating Russia's vacated team pursuit spot to Italy. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) " The Italian men's pursuit team was added to the track cycling program at the Olympics on Friday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the decision to bar Russia's squad from competing. Their pursuit teammate Sergey Shilov was cleared to compete in Saturday's road race and presumably could have ridden on the track, while teammate Viktor Manakov had never been implicated. Kiril Sveshnikov, Dmitry Sokolov and Dmitry Strakhov appealed to CAS after they were included in the McLaren report that detailed state-directed doping across numerous winter and summer sports.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 06, 2016 00:56 UTC