IOC berates anti-doping agency at meeting just before Games

Rio De Janeiro

THE United States' top Olympic official had his first formal forum on Tuesday to weigh in on the issue that is consuming global sports officials before the Rio Games: how to penalise Russia for doping violations and elaborate cheating schemes.

In recent weeks, US athletes and the country's anti-doping agency had publicly called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games entirely. Executives of the Olympic committee had rejected those pleas and instead deferred to individual sports federations.