The International Olympic Committee announced the decision from Lausanne, Switzerland following its executive board meeting Tuesday. The IOC also suspended the Russian Olympic committee and IOC member Alexander Zhukov on Tuesday, and imposed a lifetime Olympic ban on Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, the organizer of soccer's 2018 World Cup, and imposed a fine of $15 million on the Russian Olympic committee. Hundreds of Russian athletes landed in Rio and they won 56 medals. Now, just two months ahead of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the IOC was forced to make the decision on Russia again. Yet, they still opted for a route that allows Russian athletes who may have benefited from the doping scheme to compete.

Source: thestar December 05, 2017 18:57 UTC