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Olympics: IOC faces historic call on Russia Rio ban today

The International Olympic Committee is set to decide Sunday on whether to ban Russia from the Rio Games over state-run doping, an unprecedented move that could spark the Olympic movement's worst crisis in decades.

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

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