The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has opted against imposing a blanket ban against all Russian athletes for the 2016 Rio Olympics, instead choosing to allow the fate of the country's competitors to be decided by the international federations for each sport.
Calls for a suspension of all Russians had grown following the publication on Monday of a damning report by Professor Richard McLaren — independently produced at the request of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) — that found doping of the country's athletes had been "directed [and] controlled" at state level.
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McLaren's report prompted WADA to recommend that both the IOC and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decline Russian entries for Rio 2016.