(London Daily Mail) The entire Russian Olympic team will today be banned from competing at the Rio Games next month, The Mail on Sunday understands.
According to well-placed sources, the International Olympic Committee will punish all 387 Russian sportsmen and women in the strongest possible way after revelations of their country’s state-sponsored doping programme shocked the world.
The country’s corrupt track and field stars have already been banned from the Games, and last week lost a desperate legal challenge to overturn that decision.