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IOC explores legal options on banning all Russians from Rio

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Russia should boycott Rio and save time for WADA and IOC who should look into next scandal.

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I reckon it would do good for many countries to boycott Rio if they have any regard for sport people health

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I think any Russian athlete who can come out negative on a blood test to determine if he/she had been doping should still be able to compete. This could be problematic in team sports though if some of the team members were doping. IOC has plenty of it's own scandals and really has no business telling other sports organizations to boycott Russia.

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Russia should lead an olympic boycott.

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Everyone's on the gear, Russia were simply unsuccessful in keeping a lid on it all.

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I think they should allow those tested clean athletes to go to Rio. God knows Rio needs more people actually going there.

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The Russian athletes who have been consistently tested and passed by other reputable national testing agencies should be able to go.

Unfortunately, the Russian athletes who have only been tested by the disreputable Russian testing agency may have to sit this out. Because those tests cannot be trusted. How can anyone be sure those negative tests are really clean? This is what happens when ya let your national testing agency become corrupted - everyone passed by the agency becomes suspect.

And it's too late to test them again now - they could had been doping the last few years and only stopped doping a couple months ago just in time to pass this test. One test is not enough (one test can be circumvented) - it has to be a series of surprise tests done over a good period of time.

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