Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed his country would will file an appeal against the ban imposed by anti-doping authorities.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, handed down the punishment earlier this week, barring Russia as a nation but allowing individuals a chance to apply for the Games as “neutral” athletes.
The nation’s boxing federation, a force on the international scene, said Tuesday that it will not compete under those conditions. “For us, the most important thing is that our boxers appear under the flag of Russia and the sound of our anthem,” Umar Kremlev, the federation’s general secretary, told state-run news agency RIA Novosti. “Without this, there is no sense in participating.”The announcement came shortly after President Vladimir Putin confirmed his country would file an appeal with the international Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“Punishment must not be collective, that is, applied to the persons who have no connection to the crime,” Putin told reporters. “If they take decisions on collective punishment, I think this is a reason to believe that these decisions do not seek to keep sports clean but are based on political considerations.”
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