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Will Russia be banned from the Rio Olympics? The IOC meets later to discuss possible sanctions on Russia's athletes following yesterday's WADA report into what's described as a four-year state-sponsored doping programme. The report concludes urine samples from Russian competitors were manipulated across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports from 2011 to August last year. There are some fascinating details about how Russia is said to have concealed them, including a federal security agent dressed as a sewer engineer, and swapping positive samples for frozen clean ones through a mouse hole into the testing laboratory. But Dmitry Babich, political analyst for Sputnik International radio in Moscow, says there is "no evidence" to back up the findings. This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on July 19 2016.
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