Russia risks Rio ban after WADA report reveals state-sponsored doping

Russia faces being banned from the Rio 2016 Olympics after an investigation revealed state-sponsored doping “sabotaged” the London 2012 Olympics.

In one of sport’s biggest ever scandals, an independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has revealed that 1,417 samples were deliberately destroyed on the orders of the director of Russia’s drug-testing laboratory.