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The Latest: Russia launches last-ditch legal bid for rowers

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

10:15 a.m.

Russia is to launch a last-ditch legal bid to reinstate 19 of its rowers who were banned from the Rio Olympics because of insufficient drug testing.

Russian Rowing Federation head Veniamin But tells The Associated Press by telephone that he plans to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport next week to try to overturn the ruling from World Rowing.

The 19 were excluded because World Rowing said they had not been tested often enough by reliable international authorities.