Russia to be banned outright from Paralympics, IPC confirms

• Russia will not have any competitors in Rio next month• Sir Philip Craven 'disgusted' by government's 'catastrophic' failure The International Paralympic Committee have confirmed that Russia has been banned outright from next month's Paralympics, as exclusively revealed by the Observer. The decision to provisionally suspend Russia was made in the wake of the McClaren report but after the IPC board met Russian representatives on Wednesday to consider its arguments, a decision was made to ba...