Russia set to learn Olympics fate

Russia will find out later this Friday whether its athletes will be banned from next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro over doping allegations.

The athletics world governing body, the IAAF, meets later to decide whether to suspend the country after an independent commission found evidence of what it called 'state sponsored' doping.

And as Lorna Shaddick reports from Moscow, Russia is claiming any problems were down to previous sports leaders.

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