Russian sports minister: We’ll clean up our anti-doping system (Reuters)

By Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to sack senior sports officials and shake up its system of anti-doping checks in order to convince world athletics’ governing body not to bar Russian athletes from the next Olympics, the country’s sports minister said on Friday. The minister, Vitaly Mutko, was speaking shortly before the world governing body, the IAAF, meets in Monaco to decide what action to take against Russia after an international report alleged there was a culture of doping in Russian athletics. “He (Russian President Vladimir Putin) instructed us to do everything … to once again analyze and study the facts and if necessary to create a new system that has the confidence of the international community,” Mutko said.