Olympic officials decide against total Rio Games ban for Russia
Olympic leaders have stopped short of imposing a complete ban on Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Games, assigning individual global sports federations the responsibility to decide which athletes should be cleared to compete.
The decision, announced after a three-hour meeting via teleconference of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) executive board, came just 12 days before the August 5 opening of the games.
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