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Russian ban upheld

UPDATE: 10:20 a.m.

Switzerland's supreme court says it has dismissed Russia's appeal to compete at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The Swiss Federal Tribunal says its judge dismissed the Russian Paralympic Committee's request for an interim ruling overturning a ban by the International Paralympic Committee because of state-sponsored doping.

The court says the Russian body had not demonstrated it had fulfilled all its obligations to anti-doping rules.

Russia's request that individual athletes be allowed to compete was also rejected because they were not specified parties to appeals against the ban.

Russia lost 267 entries for the Rio Paralympics, which will be held from Sept. 7-18.


ORIGINAL

Switzerland's supreme court has dismissed Russia's request to compete at Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

More to come.



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Rio 2016 Medal Count
CountryGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1United States463738121
2China26182670
3Great Britain27231767
4Russia19181956
5Germany17101542
6France10181442
7Japan1282141
8Australia8111029
9Italy812828
10Canada431522


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