100 Russian Athletes Submit Individual IPC Applications to Join Rio Paralympics

More than 100 Russian athletes out of the 266 candidates for participation in the 2016 15th Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) submitted individual applications to the International Paralympic Committee for admission to the Paralympics 2016, according to the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — More than 100 Russian athletes, out of the 266 candidates, have submitted individual applications to the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) to participate in the Summer Games in Rio, the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) said Tuesday.

"Pavel Rozhkov, the president of the executive committee, the first vice president of the Russian Paralympic Committee, announced that more than 100 Russian athletes out of the 266 candidates for participation in the 2016 15th Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), apart from team sports (sitting volleyball, goalball, football 5x5, football 7x7, involving 54 people in total), have submitted individual applications to the International Paralympic Committee for admission to the Paralympics 2016," the RPC press release read.

Last week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected an RPC appeal against the IPC ban on Russia's participation in the September 7-18 Rio Paralympics. The ban will also apply to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in South Korea's Pyeongchang.

The ban was mainly influenced by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) McLaren report on the widespread use of performance enhancing substances by Russian athletes. The report, however, hardly mentioned Russian Paralympic athletes, apart from in relation to a list of 35 allegedly disappeared doping samples.