Olympic ban for Russia's World Cup organising chief Vitaly Mutko
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MOSCOW -- Russia's World Cup cannot avoid the tarnished legacy of Russia's Winter Olympics.
The doping scandals that have consumed Russian sports for the last three years took another turn on Tuesday as the International Olympic Committee handed a lifetime ban to Vitaly Mutko, the sports minister during the 2014 Sochi Games.
After Sochi, the IOC ruled the host nation operated a doping program and tampered with Russian athletes' urine samples. Still, Mutko has maintained a prominent role in Russian...