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Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. It was not immediately clear how many players were among the casualties.A list of other sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes:Nov. 8, 1948 -- Czechoslovak national ice hockey team, five members including IIHF Hall of Famer Ladislav Trojak, in the English Channel.May 4, 1949 -- Italian soccer club Torino. The four-time league champions lost 22 members, including 18 players, in Turin, Italy.Jan. 7, 1950 -- Moscow VVS ice hockey team, 11 players, near Sverdlovsk.Feb. 6, 1958 -- English soccer champion Manchester United, eight members, in Munich.Aug. 14, 1958 -- Egyptian fencing team, six members, in the Atlantic Ocean.Oct. 10, 1960 -- Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo football team, 16 members, in Toledo, Ohio.Feb. 16, 1961 -- U.S. figure skating team, 18 members and 10 coaches and officials, in Belgium.April 3, 1961 -- Green Cross, eight members of the first-division Chilean soccer team plus two members of the coaching staff, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.April 28, 1968 -- Lamar Tech track team, five members and the coach, in Beaumont, Texas.Sept. 26, 1969 -- Bolivian soccer team The Strongest, coach Eustaquio Ortuno, 16 players and two staff members, near Viloco, Bolivia.Oct. 2, 1970 -- Wichita State football team, 14 players, in Colorado.Nov. 14, 1970 -- Marshall University football team, 36 players, in Huntington, West Virginia.Oct. 13, 1972 -- Uruguayan rugby club, among the 29 casualties, in the Andes, Chile.Dec. 13, 1977 -- University of Evansville mens basketball coach Bobby Watson and 14 players, in Evansville, Indiana.March 14, 1980 -- U.S. amateur boxing team, 14 members, in Warsaw, Poland.Nov. 25, 1985 -- Iowa State womens cross country team, coach Ron Renko, assistant coach Pat Moynihan, and team members Julie Rose, Susan Baxter and Sheryl Maahs, in Des Moines, Iowa.Dec. 8, 1987 -- Peruvian first-division soccer team Alianza Lima, coach Marcos Calderon and 16 players, in Lima, Peru.April 28, 1993 -- Zambias national soccer team, 18 players and five team officials, in Libreville, Gabon.Jan. 27, 2001 -- Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colorado.Sept. 7, 2011 -- Russian hockey team Lokomotiv, 27 players, two coaches and seven club officials, in Tunoshna, Russia. 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MOSCOW -- Russias top Olympic official expects a final decision by Sunday on whether the entire Russian team will be banned from next months games in Rio de Janeiro over allegations of state-sponsored doping.The International Olympic Committee said its executive board will meet via teleconference on Sunday to consider the issue, but added that a final decision was expected within the next seven days.The IOC is examining the legal options of a blanket ban following a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren that accused Russias sports ministry of overseeing doping of the countrys Olympic athletes.The issue will be finally resolved by the end of this week, probably on Sunday, Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov said Wednesday at a meeting of the ROC.Zhukov said his committee did not discuss the McLaren report at its meeting, although he also did not rule out legal action if Russia is hit with a total ban from the games.The Court of Arbitration for Sport will issue its verdict Thursday on Russias appeal to overturn the IAAF ban on its track and field athletes for the games. The IOC will take that ruling into account before making its own decision.Zhukov said he was hopeful of winning the appeal, adding that Russias plans for the Olympics assumed the track and field team would be allowed to compete. Russia plans to send a total of 387 athletes, including 68 in track and field, he said.Of course we hope for a CAS ruling in our favor, Zhukov told state TV. It would be, Id say, a serious precedent for the other federations decisions.Regardless of how the various doping-related cases turn out, Zhukov said a Russian Olympic boycott was out of the question.These boycotts just lead to a breakup of the Olympic movement, he said. I think that Russia will never take part in any boycott.The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow that followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.ddddddddddddEarlier Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putins spokesman said a meeting between Putin and Russias Olympic athletes, previously scheduled for Thursday, would no longer take place.The IOC executive board held a meeting by teleconference on Tuesday to consider its steps in the wake of the McLaren report, which found that 28 summer and winter Olympic sports were affected by state-operated cheating in Russia.WADA and other anti-doping officials urged the IOC to consider the unprecedented step of excluding the entire Russian team from the Rio Games.The IOC said it will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the right to individual justice.The IOC also started disciplinary action against Russian sports ministry officials and others implicated in McLarens report, and said they would be denied accreditation for the Rio Games. The list includes Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.The IOC can also let individual international federations decide to ban Russians in their own sports.The international rowing federation said Wednesday it was investigating whether Russian rowers places at the Rio Olympics could be reallocated to athletes from other countries if there would be a blanket ban on the Russian team or any other ban.Russia has five rowing crews entered for the Olympics after a sixth crew was disqualified earlier this month for a doping violation in qualifying.World Rowing also said it is undertaking a complete review of testing of Russian rowers since 2011 and has asked WADA for any evidence related to doping by Russian rowers. The McLaren report alleged 11 failed drug tests in rowing had been covered up by Russian officials.---AP Sports Writer Stephen Wilson in London contributed. ' ' '