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What does ROC mean at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

2021-07-26T09:00:28.580Z


Russian athletes are prohibited from competing in Tokyo under their flag and anthem and are instead identified as "ROC" athletes, why?


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(CNN Spanish) -

The medal table of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games shows at the top names of countries that usually compete for the first places, such as the United States, China, the host Japan and Great Britain.

But in the top 10, one name is immediately apparent: ROC.

Until the early hours of this Monday, ROC was in seventh place with a total of 8 medals.

But what is ROC?

Mexico's Josue Gaston Gaxiola Leyva attempts a shot against Russian Oleg Stoyanovskiy in the men's beach volleyball Group B preliminary match between Russia, identified as ROC, and Mexico during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo on 26 July 2021. (Photo ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)

Russian athletes are banned from competing in Tokyo under their flag and anthem and are instead identified as "ROC" athletes - short for the Russian Olympic Committee - following a series of doping scandals that rocked the sport. world level.

In addition to not being able to be identified by the name of their country, instead of having their anthem playing on the podium, Russian gold medalists in Tokyo this year and at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will hear music by composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Silver medalist Tatiana Minina of the Russian team (ROC) poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for Women's Taekwondo -57kg on the second day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Makuhari Messe Hall on 25 July 2021 in Chiba, Japan.

(Photo by Maja Hitij / Getty Images)

The ban is intended to sanction Moscow for providing world anti-doping authorities with manipulated laboratory data that could have helped identify those who cheated through doping.

The original four-year sanction, imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), was announced in 2019, although a year later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut it in half.

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Previously, many Russian athletes were excluded from the last two Olympics and the country's flag was banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Russia has acknowledged shortcomings in its enforcement of anti-doping policies, but denies that it runs a state-sponsored doping program.

With information from Reuters

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Source: cnnespanol

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