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The Latest: Mutko says it's absurd to compete as neutrals

VIENNA (AP) — The Latest on the IAAF's meeting on Russia (all times local):

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7:25 p.m.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says it is "absurd" for the IAAF to allow individual Russians to compete as neutral athletes while the country's track and field team remains suspended.

The IAAF upheld Russia's ban from international track and field, imposed in November because of widespread doping. But Rune Andersen, the head of the IAAF's Russia task force, said there was a "very tiny crack in the door" for Russians to compete if they had been subject to a reliable drug-testing regime outside Russia.