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The Latest: Head of Russia's track and field backs reforms

The Latest on Russia's appeal against the Olympic ban on its track and field athletes (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):

10:10 a.m.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says the country's athletes who are banned from competing in next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro could go to a civil court to try and overturn the ban.

The announcement comes after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an earlier ruling to ban the Russian track and field team from competing in Rio.

Mutko says in a televised briefing in Moscow that "I think it's maybe the time to go to a civil court.