PARIS: The United States and Germany led calls on Friday (Saturday in Manila) for Russia to be exiled from international competition after the McLaren report said doping in sport in the country represented an “institutional conspiracy”.

More than 1,000 athletes in the summer and winter Olympics and Paralympics “can be identified as being involved in or benefiting from manipulations to conceal positive testing”, said Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren.

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