Six Russian skiers remain suspended

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says six Russian cross-country skiers will remain suspended for doping offences until at least the end of October.

Six Russian cross-country skiers will stay suspended until an IOC panel judges if they were part of a state-backed doping conspiracy at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Olympic commission - chaired by International Olympic Committee member Denis Oswald - should deliver rulings "during the summer period."

The court says the skiers will stay provisionally suspended until at least October 31.

They include Alexander Legkov, the Olympic 50-kilometre freestyle champion, and Maxim Vylegzhanin, a three-time silver medalist at Sochi.

The skiers appealed against interim bans imposed by the International Ski Federation in December after they were implicated by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren.

CAS hearings this month did not examine detailed doping allegations against Legkov, Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia Shapovalova, Evgeniy Belov and Julia Ivanova.