Almost 170 Russians cleared for Games

The vice-president of the country's Olympic Committee says 169 Russian athletes have been cleared to participate in next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea.

A Russian Olympic Committee official says 169 Russian athletes had been cleared to compete at the PyeongChang Games next month.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the committee's vice president, told reporters that the leaders of the Russian national team had been left out of an invitation list put together by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The IOC banned Russia last month from PyeongChang over "systematic manipulation" of the anti-doping system at the 2014 Sochi Games, but left the door open to athletes with no history of doping to compete as "Olympic Athletes from Russia".