<h1>Rio Paralympics 2016: Russia may be banned following doping claims</h1>

Russia can determine in August if it's to be prohibited from the 2016 Paralympics in Rio as a results of the continued doping crisis within the country. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has "opened suspension proceedings" following the publication of another damaging report in the week. That report, compiled by Canadian law faculty member Richard McLaren, claimed Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011 to 2015. The Paralympics begin on seven Sept. The IPC expects to announce whether or not it'll suspend the National Paralympic Committee of Russia within the week commencing one August. Should the Nonproliferation Center be suspended it'll have twenty one days to charm against the choice. IPC president Sir Prince Philip Craven said: "McLaren's findings area unit of great concern for everybody committed to scrub and honest sport. "The extra data we've got been given by Richard McLaren includes the names of the Para athletes related to the thirty five "disappearing positive samples" from the capital of the Russian Federation laboratory highlighted within the report. "We also are desperately following abreast of McLaren's recommendation for nineteen samples from the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games to be sent for additional analysis, having been known as a part of the sample swapping regime in situ throughout the Games."

Will Russia be kicked out of the Olympics?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is exploring the "legal options" before deciding whether or not to implement "a collective ban" on all Russian competitors for the worldwide piece de resistance, that starts on five August. A decision may return on Sunday. In the meanwhile, the IOC says it plans to re-test all Russians United Nations agency competed at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Russia screw-topped the palm tables at each the Olympic Games and Paralympics within the Russian town of Sochi, winning 113 in total, forty three of them gold.

What did the McLaren report tell us?

Commissioned by the planet Anti-Doping Agency, it looked into claims by Grigory Rodchenkov, the ex-head of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory. He alleged he doped dozens of athletes within the run-up to the 2014 Winter Games with the assistance of the Russian government, that exploited its host standing to subvert the drug-testing programme. Rodchenkov, currently out of sight within the u. s., conjointly alleged that he doped athletes before the 2012 Games in London, the 2013 World Athletics Championships in capital of the Russian Federation and also the 2015 World Swimming Championships in city.