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Banned Russian Athletes Could Compete in Pyeonchang Games

Russian athletes could compete at the Winter Olympics in South Korea after lifetime bans handed to them by the IOC were overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Russian athletes could compete at the Winter Olympics in South Korea after lifetime bans handed to them by the IOC were overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Also in the programme: UN special rapporteur to Myanmar says reports of mass graves in Rakhine state "bear the hallmarks of genocide"; and efforts to reform mental health care in Croatia.

(Picture: Russian athlete Alexander Tretiakov won gold at the Sochi Winter Olympics but was later banned by the IOC. Credit: Getty Images)

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Thu 1 Feb 201814:06GMT

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  • Thu 1 Feb 201814:06GMT

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