By David Rieder
When the International Olympic Committee announced Sunday that it would not issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the Olympic Games despite allegations of state-sponsored doping, it came with a caveat: about halfway through the report was item No. 3, which read that any athlete who had previously been sanctioned for use of performance-enhancing drugs would be barred from Rio.
Instantly, Yulia Efimova was out. Efimova’s status for the Games had been uncertain all spring after she tested positive for meldonium—just added to the banned list on January 1. She was officially cleared to compete in Rio July 12, but that invitation has been revoked as Efimova does have a previous failed test on her record.
Efimova was suspended for 16 months in the fall of 2013 after testing positive for 7-Keto-DHEA, but she returned in time for last summer’s World Championships. In Kazan, she took down Ruta Meilutyte to win the world title in the 100 breast. In 2016, she holds the second-fastest time in the world in both the 100 (1:05.70) and 200 breast (2:21.41), and so she looked like a definitely possibility for one or more medals in Rio.
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