28 Russians have Olympic doping bans lifted

MOSCOW (AP) — Twenty-eight Russian athletes had their Olympic doping bans overturned, throwing the International Olympic Committee's policy on Russian doping into turmoil.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling on Thursday was set to reinstate Russia seven medals from the 2014 Sochi Olympics, including gold in men's skeleton and men's 50-kilometer cross-country skiing.

Eleven more were ruled to have been guilty of doping, but had lifetime bans imposed by an International Olympic Committee disciplinary panel two months ago cut to a ban only from the Pyeongchang Games which open Feb. 9.