Russia will be banned from track and field events at in the Rio Olympics because the country has not ended state-sponsored doping in the sport. The International Association of Athletics Federations delivered message Friday. “I don’t think on the face of evidence, they really had any other choice,” said Paul Melia, CEO of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, which carries out all drug testing in Canada. “It would have been very difficult for them to defend lifting the ban.”
