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The Latest: Anti-doping agencies criticize IOC over Russia

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Latest from the IOC meeting on Russia's participation at the Rio Games (all times local):

10:50 p.m.

The umbrella organization representing national anti-doping agencies is disappointed that Olympic leaders did not ban Russia completely from the Rio de Janeiro Games.

The International Olympic Committee has instead left it to individual sports to decide whether they want to exclude Russians from next month's event.

Joseph de Pencier, chief executive of the 59-member Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations, says the IOC "failed to confront forcefully the findings of evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia corrupting the Russian sport system.