A ban on Russia's Paralympic team competing in Rio next month is cynical and immoral, President Vladimir Putin said on August 25, but he said that Moscow acknowledged mistakes it had made in tackling sports doping.
Russia’s track-and-field team was excluded from the Rio Games that just ended after world anti-doping authorities alleged Moscow ran a state-sponsored sports doping programme. The entire Russian Paralympic team has also been barred over the same doping allegations.
