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 ahead of the Rio Games: how to penalize Russia for doping violations and elaborate cheating schemes.
In recent weeks, American athletes and the country’s antidoping agency had publicly called for the International Olympic Committee to bar Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Games entirely. Executives of the Olympic committee had rejected those pleas and instead deferred to individual sports federations.