LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee meets on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) to decide whether to bar Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping violations, in one of the weightiest decisions ever faced by the Olympic movement.

The build-up to the high-stakes summit in Lausanne 66 days before the start of the 2018 Games has been dominated by an almost daily drip of negative news for Vladimir Putin’s winter sports heavyweights.

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