Russian PM suspends sports minister Yury Nogornykh named in doping report

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has suspended Deputy Sports Minister Yury Nagornykh, who was named in a report on the doping of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics . President Vladimir Putin said earlier that Russian officials named in the World Anti-Doping Agency's report would be temporarily suspended.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not



spell out whether it would heed growing calls for Olympic bans already imposed on Russia's track and field athletes and weightlifters to be extended to all its competitors in Games in Rio de Janeiro in August.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko was defiant, telling TASS news agency that there were no concrete confirmation of doping violations in the report.