Full coverage: 2016 Rio Olympics

And for more on this story, we turn to our Julia Lyubova in Moscow.

Q1. Julia thanks for joining us, what has been the reaction to this decision -- relief that they never received that blanket ban previously discussed, and that they can participate, or anger that they had to wait so long to find out?

Q2. Among those banned are the weightlifting and track & field teams, they earned about half of Russia's 79 medals in London, so with them out of the picture -- how competitive will the Russian team be?