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A report commissioned by world anti-doping chiefs recommends Russian athletes should be banned from competing over corruption.
The London Olympics were "more or less sabotaged" by the participation of Russian athletes who should have been banned for doping, a report has found.
The report, by an independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), directly accuses the Russian government of complicity in widespread doping and attempts to cover it up.
It blamed what it called an inexplicable laissez-faire attitude toward drug cheats from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.
The 350-page report recommended that Russia should be suspended from athletics competitions until it cleans up its act.
Commission chairman Dick Pound said Russia's behaviour amounted to "state-supported doping" and that a suspension could lead to Russian athletes being excluded from next year's Rio Olympics.
The commission recommended lifetime bans for five Russian middle-distance runners - including gold and bronze-medal winners in the 2012 Olympics 800m - and five Russian coaches and administrators.
Mr Pound said the widespread rule-breaking was "worse than we thought" and all the more serious because it had actually affected results on the field of play.
And of Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko - also a FIFA executive committee member - he said he believed it was "not possible for him to be unaware of it".
Russia came fourth in the London 2012 medal table with 82 medals in total - 24 of them gold.
Full article with more links here: http://news.sky.com/story/1584300/london-olympics-sabotaged-by-russian-cheats