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The Latest: National Olympic Committees back IOC ruling

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

7:20 p.m.

The body representing the 204 national Olympic committees has welcomed the IOC's decision not to impose a blanket ban on Russians from the Rio de Janeiro Games.

The International Olympic Committee's executive board decided to let individual sports federations decide which Russians should be eligible, following allegations of state-sponsored cheating by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren.

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees, says the "allegations made in the McLaren report were shocking and directly threaten the integrity of sport.