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Rio 2016 is committed to clean Olympic Games and will follow the decisions on Russian athletes made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and international sports federations, organising committee president Carlos Nuzman said on Sunday (24 July)

Nuzman was speaking after the executive board of the IOC decided against a blanket ban of Russian athletes but said they would not be allowed to compete in Rio unless they can prove to their sport's international federation that they are clean from doping

"We have always supported clean Games and zero tolerance for doping

This is the decision of the IOC and the international federations and we will follow it," Nuzman said, speaking at the opening of the Olympic Village in Rio

"We the organisers will welcome all athletes who come here to compete," Nuzman added

Nuzman stressed that all athletes would be made welcome in Rio (Getty Images/Matthew Stockman) The IOC's decision on Sunday follows the release on 18 July of an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into doping in Russian sports

The IOC said that the Russian Olympic Committee may not enter any athlete implicated in the WADA report or any athlete for the Olympic Games in Rio who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction

It said the presumption of innocence cannot be applied to Russian athletes because of the exceptional circumstances revealed by the report

The IOC will only accept entry to Rio 2016 from Russian athletes who have been approved by the relevant international federation and then by an arbitrator from the Court of Arbitration for sport

Any Russian athletes accepted for Rio will be subject to a rigorous additional testing programme

In June, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) banned the Russian track and field team from competing in this year's Olympic Games, which begin on 5 August

Rio 2016 statement on clean Games