IOC panel to have final say on Russian athletes

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says a three-person panel will have the final say on which Russian athletes can compete at the Rio games. After the IOC had said that the governing bodies of each individual sport would decide if Russian competitors are clean amid claims of state-sponsored doping, it has now said a panel will decide whether to accept or reject rulings on each individual. The executive board “decided to delegate the final decision on the acceptance of entries of Russian athletes to a review panel composed of three IOC Executive Board Members,” the IOC said in a statement on Sunday. BLOOMBERG