The Olympic wrestling team of Russia, the world’s dominant nation in that sport, has reported “several tens” of doping cases, which could rule out top athletes for the Rio Games in August.
The head of the Russian Sports Wrestling Federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili, initially declined to name the wrestlers who had tested positive or what the substances were, but he said, “It could happen that we don’t have anyone left to go the Olympics.” Later, he confirmed that Sergei Semyonov and Evgeny Saleyev had tested positive, while insisting that the doping problem was smaller than previously reported.
Also Tuesday, a spokesman for President Vladimir V.