Ban Russia from the Olympics?

An arbitration court confirmed that Russia’s track and field team, which was caught in a major doping and cover-up scandal, can be banned from the Olympics.  The ruling also opened the door to banning the entire Russian delegation, if the International Olympics Committee so decides.

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From Russia Loses Appeal of Olympics Ban for Track-and-Field Athletes – WSJ:

An appeals court on Thursday opened the door to a ban on the entire Russian delegation from the Rio Olympics in August with a ruling that individual athletes can be punished collectively for doping violations committed by sports officials and coaches.

The ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, should have a broad impact even though it was focused on the decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field’s global governing body, to ban Russia’s track-and-field athletes.

The decision clears the way for the International Olympic Committee to heed the call of more antidoping officials, athletes and members of its own athletes’ commission to support a ban of the entire Russian team. Those calls intensified this week after another World Anti-Doping Agency report detailed how the Russian Ministry of Sport conspired to corrupt the antidoping lab at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and hid performance-enhancing drug use for more than five years.

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