YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on December 7 it had extended provisional measures against Russia over its doping scandal "until further notice" pending the evaluation of a report prepared by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), “Armenpress” reports, citing Reuters.

The sanctions that were first imposed on July 19 following the publication of the first part of the McLaren report include having no IOC-sanctioned events in Russia and urging sports federations to look for alternative locations for events.

A number of other restrictive measures, such as a ban on accreditations for Russian officials, were linked to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Canadian law professor Richard McLaren will present the second part of his report into state-sponsored doping in Russian sport on December 9 in a hotel in London.

The report is expected to provide further details on an elaborate doping scheme operated by Russia at the 2014 Sochi Olympics which McLaren outlined in his original report released in July.

That led WADA to recommend that the entire Russian team should be excluded from Rio Olympics in August.

Although Russian track and field athletes and weightlifters were banned from competing at Rio, the IOC rejected a blanket ban and let international sports federations decide which athletes were eligible to compete.