Asked whether Russia would boycott the Madden Mobile Coins games if it faces punishment, Peskov did not answer directly, but said Russia does not want "such situations to damage the Olympic movement Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has not been suspended from duties because he is not directly accused of covering up doping.Putin said on Monday that officials named in the McLaren Report into Russian doping cover-ups would be suspended.
A deputy sports minister has been suspended.Dmitry Peskov says that was because Mutko was not named as someone "directly involved" in the cover-up.While the report says much of the day-to-day administration of doping cover-ups was done by deputy minister Yuri Nagornykh and Mutko's adviser, Nataliya Zhelanova.
Mutko is accused of having ordered a cover-up in one case, that of an unnamed foreign soccer player in the Russian Premier League.Mutko is one of Putin's oldest allies in the government, having worked with each other for more than 20 years, dating to their time together in the St. Petersburg city administration in the 1990s.
London Marathon organizers say a British court has ordered Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova to repay prize and appearance money after being banned for doping.The High Court judgment mandates Shobukhova to repay 377,961.62 pounds ($498,000) plus costs relating to her 2010 marathon victory and second-place finish the following year in the British capital.London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel says "the next step is to Buy Madden Coins get the judgment enforced in Russia.