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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev leads a cabinet meeting in the Gorky residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Medvedev on Tuesday called the refusal to allow Russian athletes to take part in the Paralympic Games an attempt to remove a strong rival. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has confirmed Russia's ban from the Paralympic Games as punishment for a state-backed doping program. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)

Sports court confirms Russia ban from Rio Paralympics

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressAugust 23, 2016

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, a Russian skating fan holds the country's national flag over the Olympic rings before the start of the men's 10,000-meter speedskating race at Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The IOC's ruling 15-member executive board will meet Sunday, July 24, 2016 via teleconference to weigh the unprecedented step of excluding Russia as a whole from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games because of systematic, state-sponsored cheating. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

IOC leaders stop short of complete ban on Russia from Rio Olympics

by Graham Dunbar Associated Press, and Stephen Wilson Associated PressJuly 24, 2016

FILE - In this file photo dated July 20, 2015, fake banknotes are symbolically thrown by British comedian Simon Brodkin, at former FIFA president Sepp Blatter during a media conference following the extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee at the headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. The office of Michael Lauber Swiss attorney general, confirms new raids on FIFA offices Friday June 3, 21016, during ongoing investigations of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke. Blatter and Valcke both deny wrongdoing. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP, FILE)

Blatter $M bonuses, police raid revealed in FIFA turmoil

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressJune 3, 2016

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 file photo, Markus Kattner, FIFA acting Secretary General, attends a press conference at the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA has fired deputy secretary general Markus Kattner after allegedly uncovering financial wrongdoing during an internal investigation, it was reported Monday May 23, 2016. Kattner, who joined FIFA as director of finance in 2003, has been temporarily filling the top administrative job of world soccer's governing body since Jerome Valcke was suspended last year before being fired himself. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP, File)

FIFA fires finance director Kattner over bonus payments

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressMay 23, 2016

FILE - In this June 1, 2011 file photo then FIFA President Joseph Blatter, right, and then UEFA President Michel Platini walk together at the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, plans to announce its verdict on Monday, May 9, 2016 in Michel Platini's appeal on his six-year ban from football. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Platini to resign after CAS imposes 4-year ban from soccer

by Graham Dunbar Associated Press, and Samuel Petrequin Associated PressMay 9, 2016

FILE - This June 27, 2014 file photo, shows the Olympic Arena, top, and the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center under construction in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two winners will get to stay overnight next week, in April 2016, in a converted VIP box set up in the Olympic Arena, which is holding a test event in gymnastics. The room is the prize in a publicity contest put on by Airbnb, a sponsor of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Sports federations concerned about venues for Rio Games

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressApril 19, 2016

FILE - This is a Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 file photo of a UEFA sign pictured at the UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. UEFA said Wednesday April; 6, 2016 that it has been raided by Swiss police and has handed over evidence of a Champions League television rights contract with an offshore marketing agency implicated in the FIFA bribery scandal. (,Jean-Christophe Bott, Keystone File, via AP)

Swiss police raid UEFA over TV deal with indicted executives

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressApril 6, 2016

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 22, 2011 file photo, Juan Pedro Damiani, president of Uruguay's Penarol soccer club, right, shakes hands with Brazilian soccer legend Pele after a news conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A FIFA judge who helped ban Sepp Blatter for financial misconduct is now under investigation by his ethics committee colleagues after being named in an international probe of offshore accounts. The FIFA ethics prosecution chamber said Monday, April 4, 2016 that it “opened a preliminary investigation to review the allegations” linked to lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani of Uruguay. Damiani was identified in reports Sunday by international media who got a vast trove of data and documents leaked from a Panama law firm about evading tax and hiding assets through offshore accounts. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, file)

FIFA judge faces ethics investigation over offshore accounts

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressApril 4, 2016

FIFA acknowledges World Cup hosting bribes, asks US for cash

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressMarch 16, 2016

Craig Reedie, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, speaks during a Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, March 14, 2016. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

WADA to consider new inquiries into Russian doping

by Graham Dunbar Associated PressMarch 14, 2016