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Thursday's Sports in Brief (The Associated Press)

Related Topics: Larry Probst, Doping in sport

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee warned of turning the effort to fix the world's broken anti-doping system into a Cold War-style showdown between East and West.

Speaking to the U.S. Olympic Assembly, chairman Larry Probst reiterated his support for the International Olympic Committee's near-unanimous rubber-stamping of president Thomas Bach's decision not to ban the entire Russian team from the Rio Olympics.

''If we're going to address the inadequacies of the current anti-doping system, we can't devolve into a Cold War mentality of us versus them,'' Probst told the audience of U.