• Vitaly Mutko,former sports minister and 2018 World Cup chief, banned for life
Some athletes will be able to compete at Pyeongchang 2018 under neutral flagRussia’s Olympic Committee has been banned from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and ordered to pay $15m in costs after making what the International Olympic Committee called an “unprecedented attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and sport”.
Tellingly the IOC also accepted, and for the first time,that the Russian state had been involved in widespread institutional doping by banning the then minister of sport, Vitaly Mutko, and his then deputy minister,Yuri Nagornykh, from any participation in all future Olympic Games.
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Source: guardian.co.uk