"There is no indication in the IP report that athletes of Russian Synchronised Swimming Federation, Russian Diving Federation and Russian Water Polo would be implicated," FINA added. "The exact implication for the Russian Swimming Federation is still to be clarified. FINA said it would also retest all the samples of Russian athletes collected at the Kazan 2015 World Championships. PARIS (FRANCE) - Swimming's world governing body on Monday moved swiftly to ban seven Russians from competing at next month's Rio Olympics in the fall-out from Russia's rampant state-run doping. Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, both 4x100m freestyle bronze-medal winners with the Russian team at the 2012 Olympics, and Yulia Efimova, another 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, were among the seven banned.

Source: Bangkok Post July 25, 2016 15:33 UTC