Russia's athletes will miss the Rio 2016 Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today threw out an appeal against their International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ban.

is hardly acceptable," Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS

Russia is "totally against" boycotting Rio 2016, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov has revealed.

We are totally against any boycotts," he said, as reported by TASS."

to have been implicated in the swapping of samples to conceal positive tests.Nikolai Durmanov, who TASS

Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva says she is “optimistic” Russia’s Rio 2016 athletics ban will be overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after speaking at an appeal hearing today.

month.Sebastian Coe attended the CAS hearing personally ©Getty Images"I made my speech,” Isinbayeva told TASS

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has not been suspended from his post following yesterday's publication of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent report here as he is not directly accused of covering up doping, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Russia due to host the next World Cup in 2018.However, Kremlin spokesman Peskov told Russian news agency TASS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Olympic Movement "can once again be on the verge of splitting", following the release of Richard McLaren's independent report here today into alleged state-sponsored doping during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, as well as in competitions in summer sports.

Mikhail Butov, secretary general of the All-Russian Athletics Federation, told Russian news agency TASS

Getty ImagesIrina Rodnina, a three-time Olympic gold-winning figure skater for the Soviet Union, told TASS

Forty years ago modern pentathlon made headlines as never before after a scandal which rocked the entire Olympic world.

There were Soviet agents sitting there.”The Soviet news agency TASS reported the ‘’righteous condemnation

Richard McLaren's pivotal World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission report into allegations of an orchestrated and state-supported doping scheme at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games is due to be released here tomorrow.

chaired the latest Independent Commission report ©Getty ImagesRussian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told TASS

Russian weightlifter Alexey Lovchev’s appeal against a four-year ban after testing positive for growth hormone enhancer ipamorelin has been dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

extracted from the maral root and is used as a restorative agent.Speaking to Russian news agency TASS

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after the International Swimming Federation (FINA) formally dropped doping charges against Yulia Efimova, the country's top female swimmer.

charges [against Efimova] had been dropped," her lawyer Artem Patsev told Russia's official news agency TASS

They have created a mountain out of a mole hill," he told TASS."

Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has claimed the International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) decision to only deem two Russian athletes eligible to compete at Rio 2016 means "nothing", before expressing her hope that it will be reversed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

statements coming now from IAAF claiming our athletes are not admitted to the Olympic Games," she told the TASS

Long jumper Darya Klishina could lead a one-person Russian athletics team at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after being named as just the second athlete eligible to compete at the Games by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

everyone, except for Klishina," the ROC's head of the legal department Alexandra Brilliantova told the TASS

coach of two-time Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, also told TASS

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has claimed the country will have a successful Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month despite their athletics team being suspended from competing.

be no obstruction for a successful performance at Rio," Zhukov told the official Russian news agency TASS

The Russian Rowing Federation (RRF) has dismissed reports they will appeal their men’s quadruple sculls crew’s ban from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

that the RRF would take World Rowing to sport’s supreme court after President Veniamin But told the TASS

The Russian Rowing Federation (RRF) will launch an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the Rio 2016 ban imposed on their men’s quadruple sculls crew, according to reports.

started to prepare the documents, we will launch an appeal to CAS,” RRF President Veniamin But told the TASS

Only two track and field athletes are thought to have met the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) criteria for competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a leading Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) official has admitted.

Russian athletes have chances to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro," she told the TASS