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Ban imminent? IOC seeks legal advice on removing Russia from Rio Olympics
International Olympic officials will "explore the legal options'" for a potential total ban on Russia from the games in Rio de Janeiro, and are taking measures to punish athletes and officials involved in the state-run doping conspiracy.

The IOC executive board announced steps on Tuesday following a scathing report by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator who accused Russia's sports ministry of overseeing doping of the country's athletes across 28 Olympic sports.

WADA and other anti-doping officials urged the IOC to consider the unprecedented step of excluding the entire Russian contingent from the Rio Games. The International Olympic Committee stopped short of supporting such a move, but didn't rule it out either.

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First, the IOC said, it will "carefully evaluate" the report issued on Monday by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who listed 20 summer sports as being part of systematic cheating in Russia, and confirmed the manipulation of Russian doping samples at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

The IOC "will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the right to individual justice," the 15-member ruling executive board said in a statement following a meeting by teleconference.

The IOC noted that it will have to take into account a decision coming on Thursday from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which will rule on Russia's appeal against the ban on its track and field athletes from Rio. That ban was imposed in November by the IAAF and upheld last month.

Meantime, the IOC said it has started disciplinary action against Russian sports ministry officials and others implicated in McLaren's report, including denial of accreditation for the Rio Games.

The IOC also:

-- said it will not organize "or give patronage" to any sports event or meetings in Russia, including plans to hold the European Games in the country in 2019.

-- will launch retesting, including forensic analysis, of doping samples from the Sochi Games. Moscow's former doping lab director, Grigory Rodchenkov, said dirty samples of Russian athletes -- including gold medalists -- were swapped out in the middle of the night for clean samples, with the help of Russian intelligence service officials.

-- set up a commission to carry out a "full inquiry" into all of the Russian athletes who competed in Sochi, along with their coaches, officials, and support staff.

-- asked WADA to extend McLaren's mandate to disclose the names of Russian athletes whose positive doping samples were covered up, and whose samples were manipulated in Sochi.

-- called on all international winter sports federations to "freeze" their plans for holding major events in Russia, including world championships and World Cups, and to seek alternative venues in other countries.

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