Narromine product and three-time Olympian Melinda Gainsford-Taylor has backed the calls for Russia to be banned from the upcoming Rio Olympics.
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The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) executive board will meet on Sunday in Lausanne, where the World Anti-Doping Agency's recommendation to ban Russia from Rio will be discussed.
A verdict was expected from the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday regarding the ban already imposed on Russia's track and field team and that could affect the IOC's decision.
"If you allow the Russians to compete at these Olympics, it goes against the integrity of what the Olympics is," Gainsford-Taylor told Triple M's Grill Team on Thursday.
"How could you let a country be part of this when this has been a state-sponsored doping program?"
The issue has garnered much opinion and Australian Olympic great Andrew Gaze is hoping innocent Russians won't be kicked out of the Rio Games.
But he concedes the IOC might find there's no other option but to kick the entire Russian team out of Rio following the damning report which revealed systematic, state-backed drug cheating between 2011 and 2015.
"I can understand the rationale behind (calls for a blanket ban) because if you've got organisations just blatantly cheating, you don't want them there," said Gaze on Thursday.
"But to me, it's like anything, you don't want to punish the innocent.
Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates will be at the IOC meeting, and the AOC is withholding its views until then.
