Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - A threadbare Russian Olympic team gathered at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport to board a flight to Rio.

Australia’s athletes have returned to the Olympic Village in Rio.

Two days previously the team arrived at the accommodation and walked straight out again, condemning the tower blocks as uninhabitable.

The Kremlin says it welcomes the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ruling against a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the next month’s Olympics.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Ten people have been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of planning attacks on next month’s Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has opted not to impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month’s Rio Olympics amid the scandal over state-sponsored doping.