Games digest FINA denies swimmers cleared

FINA denies swimmers cleared

FINA, the global sanctioning body for aquatics, is denying Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have been cleared to compete in the Rio Olympics.

Morozoz and Lobintsev were among the athletes implicated in a report by Canada's Richard McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency, which found widespread, state-sanctioned doping in Russia ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.