• 5 years ago
The Russian Olympic Committee president said the country will select a team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to "defend the nation's honour" despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommendation Russians be banned from competing in top events.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov told an annual meeting with athletic federation representatives the Olympics was not a competition between countries "but between athletes selected and sent to the Games by their respective national Olympic committees".

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