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The Latest: Italian pursuit team replaces Russia in cycling

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

9:50 p.m.

The Italian men's pursuit team has been added to the track cycling program at the Rio Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the decision to bar Russia's squad from competing.

Kiril Sveshnikov, Dmitry Sokolov and Dmitry Strakhov appealed to CAS after they were included in the McLaren Report that detailed state-directed doping across numerous winter and summer sports.

Their pursuit teammate Sergey Shilov was cleared to compete in Saturday's road race and presumably could have ridden on the track, while teammate Viktor Manakov had never been implicated.