Olympics chiefs meet in anti-doping summit after Russia ban

Berlin (dpa) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is expected to consider further anti-doping measures at an Olympic summit Tuesday which follows a ban on Russian competing at the Rio Games in August.The meeting which began in Lausanne Tuesday will endorse the IOC‘s backing for the international athletics federation IAAF, which has upheld the suspension of Russian athletics.IOC president Thomas Bach said: "We want to coordinate efforts to protect clean athletes and the anti-doping fight ahead of the Rio Olympics. We will have an interesting debate."The summit brings together leading representatives of the Olympic movement and its organizations.IAA president Sebastian Coe and Russia‘s Olympic committee president Alexander Zhukov are attending.The IOC said the meeting "will address the situation of the countries in which the National Anti-Doping Organisation has been declared non-compliant by (World Anti-Doping Agency) WADA for reasons of the non-efficient functioning of the national anti-doping system."It will also "have to address the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice."The IOC had said Saturday it welcomed and supported the "strong stance against doping" taken by the IAAF following its ban on Russia competing at the Olympics because of state-sponsored doping.