With an Olympic boycott ruled out, Russia is planning to at least partially admit it has a doping problem. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that there would “not in any case” be a boycott of next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. A short time later, the acting president of the Russian track federation, Vadim Zelichenok, said he was ready to own up to some of the charges leveled in the World Anti-Doping Agency commission’s report on doping in the country. “We admit some things, we argue with some things, some are already fixed, it’s a variety,” he said, declining to provide further details.
Sports Briefing | Olympics: Russia Formulates Doping Response
