Russia says final decision on Olympic ban expected Sunday

Yelena Isinbayeva is one of the Russian stars who could miss the Rio Olympics.

IOC president Thomas Bach said Russia’s actions were “a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games”. It may all come down to the lawyers.

Zhukov said he was hopeful of winning the appeal, adding that Russia’s plans for the Olympics assumed the track and field team would be allowed to compete.

Russian Federation plans to send a total of 387 athletes, including 68 in track and field, he said.

The Russian Olympic contingent is facing a ban from the Rio Olympics this summer after a report uncovered a state sponsored doping cover up, which involved Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man, the Russian Intelligence Services and other sporting officials. He added that regardless of the ruling, Russian Federation would not boycott the games – as the Soviet Union did in 1984 in response to a United States boycott in 1980.

The Ministry of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athlete’s analytical results or sample swapping, with the active participation and assistance of the FSB, CSP and both Moscow and Sochi Laboratories.

The IOC executive board held a meeting by teleconference on Tuesday to consider its steps in the wake of the McLaren report, which found that 28 summer and winter Olympic sports were affected by state-operated cheating in Russian Federation.

Putin has, however, suspended all officials named in the McLaren Report until investigations are finished.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called for such a ban, but the co-author of the report that led to the IAAF suspension believes the International Olympic Committee will only enforce an entire ban on the Russian team as a last resort.

ZHUKOVSKY, Russia (AP) – Long jumper Ekaterina Koneva says she’ll cry.

Boycotting the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games amid the ongoing doping scandal is not on Russian agenda, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

The committee will also review the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) anti-doping code and the Olympic Charter.

“It is important to focus on the need for individual justice in all these cases”. If lower-level Russian athletes or foreign athletes tested positive, additional testing was carried out in accordance with standard protocol.

WADA, the German Olympic committee and anti-doping bodies across the globe have backed calls for Russia’s outright ban from Rio.

– Officials of the Russian Ministry of Sport or any person implicated in the IP report will not be accredited for the Rio Games.

Doping report had been taken down.

– The IOC will not organize or give patronage to any sports event or meeting in Russian Federation, including plans for the European Games 2019.

– will launch retesting, including forensic analysis, of doping samples from the Sochi Games.

“The system was set up after Russian authorities felt it was an abysmal medal count by the Russian Olympic team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and it was in place until at least August of 2015”.

All Olympics winter sports federations have been told to halt preparations for any global events in Russia.