LAUSANNE, Switzerland: The International Olympic Committee held showdown talks Sunday on whether to ban Russia from the Rio Games over state-run doping, an unprecedented decision that could spark the Olympic movement's worst crisis in decades.

While countries have been banned from past Games for political reasons, throwing an entire nation out for drug cheating would be a first.

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