Olympic Committee support IAAF's ban on Russia
The International Olympic Committee have backed the International Association of Athletics Federation's decision to uphold a ban on Russia's track and field team for this summer's Olympics in Rio.
The IAAF on Friday voted to uphold Russia's suspension, first imposed in November after a World Anti-Doping Agency report unveiled state-sponsored doping and widespread corruption in Russian athletics.
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Russia's Olympic chief Aleksander Zhukov says his country's clean athletes will appeal the ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
He's called the punishment 'legally indefensible'.
Similarly, Kenya has come under the IAAF and WADA spotlight over its flagging anti-doping control system, necessitating changes to legislation to avoid exclusion of its world-beating distance runners from August's Rio de Janeiro Olympics.