LONDON: A complete ban for the entire Russia team from August’s Olympic Games in Rio is “not impossible,” the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Dick Pound told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper.

Friday saw the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) uphold an international ban on Russia’s track and field competitors first imposed in November after a WADA team led by veteran Canadian sports administrator Pound revealed state-sponsored doping and mass corruption in Russian athletics.

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