FGSR President Alexei Svirin confirmed the news to Russian state news agency TASS.

On Tuesday (July 6), the ROC published the squad for Tokyo 2020 which included rowers Alexander Vyazovkin, Ilya Kondratyev, Andrey Potapkin, Artem Kosov, Nikita Eskin, Nikolai Pimenov, Alexander Matveev, Anna Prakaten, Ekaterina Kurochkina, Ekaterina Pitirimova, Maria Botalova, Anastasia Lebedeva, Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oryabinskaya.

"Out-of-competition testing, which was conducted on June 17 at a training event in Greece, revealed the presence of meldonium in Nikita Morgachev and Pavel Sorin," said Svirin.

"That is why the athletes stayed in Moscow and did not go to the training camp in Japan.

"The trial is underway, we cannot understand how the meldonium got into the body of the athletes."

The ROC's rowing team arrived in Japan on Friday (July 2) before competition takes place at the Games from July 27 to 30.

Both rowers' B samples have now been requested to be examined and if they match the A samples, they face four-year suspensions from competition.

Morgachev could not compete at Rio 2016 after his team mate Sergey Fedorovtsev tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine.

Sorin was the 2015 European gold medallist in the men's quadruple sculls, while Morgachev won gold in the same event in 2007.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport halved the four-year sanction implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), forcing Russia to compete under a neutral banner for two years starting from December 2020 in all World Championships and Olympic Games.

Russia will compete under the ROC name with a neutral flag and anthem.

A "neutral" uniform was revealed in April.

The sanction followed the "cover-up of the cover-up" in the state-sponsored doping scandal.

WADA punished Russia due to the manipulation of data at the Moscow Laboratory.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8.