Russia's athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from competition following revelations of widespread, state-sponsored doping.
The International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) council voted 22-1 in favour of the sanction.
The IOC has provisionally suspended the former head of world athletics Lamine Diack of his honorary membership.
In a statement it said it had asked the IAAF to start disciplinary action against athletes, coaches and officials who have taken part in the Olympics Games and are accused of doping in the WADA report.
The IOC said the doping scandal in the country did not affect performances at the 2014 Sochi Games where WADA experts had given the thumbs up to testing procedures.
"The IOC studied the functioning of the WADA accredited laboratory in Sochi during the Olympic Winter Games 2014," it said.
"In this context the IOC relies on the-then report of the WADA independent observer group which makes no mention of any such irregularity. Nor was any such irregularity reported by the international experts involved, nor found by the IOC itself.
"Therefore, the IOC has no reason to question the credibility of the results of the anti-doping tests carried out at the Olympic Winter Games 2014."
Russia's athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from competition following revelations of widespread, state-sponsored doping.
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