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A damning World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) report released last week alleged a complex system of subterfuge that involved Russia's security services tampering with and altering sealed urine samples.

All this was carried out under the direction of the country's sport authorities to cover up doping across a "vast majority" of winter and summer sports, the report stated, leading many to call for Russia to be banned from the Rio Games, which begin August 5.

However, Sunday's announcement means Russian athletes "will be accepted by the IOC" to compete in Rio if they can meet strict anti-doping criteria, have no doping history and are given the green light by their own sports governing body.

Federations "should carry out an individual http://www.viveresporte.com.br/produtos/ was an "objective" one.

The country's Olympic minister, Alexander Zhukov, said that the IOC had come to "a well-considered decision which allows our athletes to compete in the Olympics under the Russian flag" despite pressure against them from the western media.

Yet that view was not shared by the head of the U.S Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart. "In response to the most important moment for clean athletes and the integrity of the Olympic Games, the IOC has refused to take decisive leadership," Tygart said in a statement posted on the USADA Twitter feed.

He added that it was frustrating the IOC would "pass the baton to sports federations who may lack the adequate expertise or collective will to appropriately address the situation within the short window prior to the games."

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The last time Russian athletes didn't compete in an Olympic Games was in 1984. Back then, at the height of the cold war, a tit-for-tat dispute with the U.S. ensured athletes from the Soviet Union did not travel to the Los Angeles Games.

American athletes had previously not attended the 1980 Games in Moscow following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

The last nation to be banned from the Olympics was South Africa, which was banned from the Seoul Games in 1988 as part of the apartheid-era sporting boycott.

CNN's John Sinnott, Tom McGowan and James Masters contributed to this report.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/24/sport/russia-ioc-olympics-ban/index.html