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 programme.
It said one competitor, Viktor Lebedev, should not take part in the Rio Games because he had a positive doping test in 2006.
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(Reporting by Christian Lowe; Editing by Maria Kiselyova)
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