Sean Ingle
Sean Ingle is a senior sports writer and the Guardian's athletics correspondent. He writes a weekly column on sport.
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The IOC has failed to protect its honest athletes in the doping scandalWhile the IOC counts its money from TV and sponsorship deals, the honest athletes it is supposed to stand up for have been let down
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Usain Bolt approaches peak to pump up pressure on Justin GatlinMen’s Olympic 100m final in Rio is being billed as showdown between good and evil with Usain Bolt
confident he will once again defeat Justin Gatlin
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Russian Olympic chief says team will be cleanest at Rio GamesPresident of Russian Olympic Committee said more than 250 Russian athletes will clear anti-doping checks required to compete in Rio and Russian team will be cleanest at Games
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Federations fear huge damage claims over Russia’s Olympic Games banInternational sports federations fear huge damage claims if they enforce bans on Russian athletes for the Olympic Games in Rio
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Greg Rutherford calls IOC decision over Russia team for Rio ‘spineless’Greg Rutherford has led the condemnation of the IOC’s decision not to issue a blanket ban on the Russian team for Rio, calling it ‘a spineless attempt to appear as the nice guy to both sides’
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Russia’s athletes escape blanket IOC ban for Rio Olympic GamesThe International Olympic Committee has decided against a blanket ban on Russian athletes from competing in Rio – ruling instead to allow the 28 individual federations that compromise the summer Games to decide their fate
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Russia facing Olympic judgment day as IOC decides Rio 2016 fateThe IOC executive board is expected to decide Russia’s Rio 2016 fate on Sunday, with possible punishments being a blanket ban or individual exclusions by Olympic federations
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Kendra Harrison sets 100m hurdles world record at Anniversary GamesThe American, who failed to qualify for the US Olympic team earlier this month, broke a record set in 1988 to finish ahead of Jessica Ennis-Hill and stun the Olympic Stadium
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Mo Farah tells Kenyan rivals to bring it on at Rio Olympic GamesMo Farah has not been satisfied with any of his races this year but is eager to defend his 5,000 and 10,000m Olympic titles in Rio
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Usain Bolt promises not to leave it late against Justin Gatlin in RioThe sprinter will compete in this weekend’s Anniversary Games but has his eyes on an Olympic showdown with his biggest rival, who he narrowly beat in Beijing
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Anti-doping agencies urge IOC to suspend Russian team from OlympicsThe International Olympic Committee has received an urgent letter from 14 national anti-doping organisations urging it to immediately suspend the Russian Olympic Committee and provisionally ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics
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After the McLaren report should Russia still have the World Cup?The International Olympic Committee does not trust Russia to host any sporting event, thereby placing Fifa under more pressure before the 2018 World Cup
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Vladimir Putin warns of Olympic ‘schism’ after Russian doping revealedThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, warned the Olympic movement could ‘wind up on the edge of schism’ after damning report on state-sponsored Russian doping
Rio day five: Australia's Chalmers wins gold as Phelps edges Lochte – as it happened