Drug testers being prevented from taking samples in Russia

Russia's hopes of having the ban on its athletes lifted in time for the Olympics have been dented.

Russia's hopes of having the global ban on its athletics team lifted in time for the Rio Olympics have been severely dented by a devastating World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report.

Published on WADA's website, the "update on the status of Russia testing" lists a catalogue of delaying tactics, failures and wilful obstruction which have made it almost impossible to adequately test Olympic hopefuls in the world's largest country.