MOSCOW (Reuters) – United World Wrestling, the governing body for Olympic forms of wrestling, said on Thursday a special commission it set up had recommended that 16 of the 17 Russian wrestlers who qualified for the Rio Olympics should be allowed to take part. It said in a statement the 16 had been tested in accredited laboratories outside Russia, and were not mentioned in a report that alleged Russia ran a state-sponsored doping program.
It said one competitor, Viktor Lebedev, should not take part in the Rio Games because he had a positive doping test in 2006.
(Reporting by Christian Lowe; Editing by Maria Kiselyova)
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