Rio 2016: Judo and shooting allow Russian athletes to compete at Olympics

Each sport was controversially asked to make its own decision on the eligibility of Russian athletes by the International Olympic Committee on Sunday

Putin congratulates Russian judokas on success at 2012 (Getty)

Russia's Olympic hopes received a boost on Tuesday when the governing bodies for judo and shooting approved the eligibility of all of their athletes for the Rio Games.

The news followed a run of decisions from sports which saw Russia lose athletes because of their involvement in the country's recently-uncovered, state-run doping programme, or because they had already served doping bans before.

Each sport was controversially asked to make its own decision on the eligibility of Russian athletes by the International Olympic Committee on Sunday, when it decided against banning the entire team.

In a statement, the executive committee of the International Shooting Sport Federation said none of Russia's 18 proposed competitors appeared in Richard McLaren's damning report into the Russian doping scandal or had previously served bans.

And a spokesperson for International Judo Federation (IJF) president Marius Vizer told Press Association Sport that the federation had written to the IOC to say all 11 of Russia's proposed team should be considered eligible.

Russia won only one bronze medal in the shooting at London 2012 but claimed three golds, a silver and a bronze in the judo competition. They were the first Olympic judo gold medals the country had ever won.

Vizer's support for Russia came as little surprise, though, as Russian President Vladimir Putin is the IJF's honorary president.

There was also no word on the identities of the Russian judo players responsible for the eight manipulated drugs tests uncovered by McLaren.

Earlier, the International Canoe Federation (ICF) became the latest governing body to ban a number of Russians from Rio.

The ICF ruled five sprint canoeists - Elena Aniushina, Alexander Dyachenko, Alexey Korovashkov, Andrey Kraitor and Natalia Podolskaia - ineligible but stopped short of issuing a federation-wide ban.

Putin is the IJF's honorary president (Getty)

That followed Monday's decisions by rowing to bar three Russian rowers, and swimming to ban three swimmers, with four more being withdrawn by the Russian Olympic Committee.

ICF secretary general Simon Toulson said: "This is a bitter blow for the Olympic movement and we are saddened that our sport is implicated.

"We have taken swift action and removed all offending athletes where doping evidence exists.

"We are clear that if you step out of line you won't make the start line."

Dyachenko won the men's K2 gold medal at London 2012 along with his team-mate Iurii Postrigai, who will also miss out on Rio although he was not implicated in the report.

The ICF, however, had been expected to crack down even harder having issued one-year bans to Belarus and Romania earlier this month for repeated doping violations.

A number of sports are yet to declare their position with regard to Russian athletes, although only weightlifting is likely to follow athletics' example and issue a team ban.

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United World Wrestling said on Tuesday it had requested more information regarding wrestlers said to be involved in the "disappearing positive tests" scheme identified by McLaren.

The International Handball Federation has written to the Russian federation to ask for the whereabouts of the women's team to enable immediate testing, while boxing and gymnastics are among those who have told Press Association Sport they are assessing matters.

Archery, equestrian and tennis were quick out of the blocks in confirming the eligibility of the Russian entries, while the Russian media is reporting their seven-strong sailing team are already in Rio and will be allowed to compete.

Modern pentathlon has declared Ilia Frolov and Maksim Kustov ineligible because they appear in McLaren's report.

Frolov was only a reserve for the team but Kustov's place will now go to Ruslan Nakonechnyi of Latvia. The three remaining members of Russia's team, including top-ranked Alexander Lesun, have been cleared to compete.

Russia initially selected 387 athletes for Rio, approximately 50 fewer than recent summer Games', but has already lost almost 90 of those in the individual vetting process that each sport is now undertaking.

The Olympics start in Rio on August 5 and finish on August 21.