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- Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over its state-orchestrated doping programme.
- Those athletes who do go to the Games will participate under the name "Olympic Athlete from Russia" and the country's flag will not fly at any 2018 ceremony.
- The sanction was the toughest ever levelled by the IOC for drug cheating and came just 65 days ahead of the games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
- An explosive report by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) and two subsequent IOC investigations have confirmed that Russian athletes took part in an elaborate drug cheating programme which peaked during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
- The IOC also banned Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko — who was sports minister during the Sochi Games — for life.
- Mutko is currently the head of the organising committee for the 2018 World Cup, which Russia is hosting.
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