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Russian Sports Minister VITALY MUTKO said that former Olympic walk champion OLGA KANISKINA "will step down as the head of Russia's Olympic Training Centre for Walking following her doping ban." Mutko: "Of course she would be removed. I will personally give instructions to the center myself so that they will implement the correct measures that are needed" (REUTERS, 1/21). ... Three-time Tour de France winner GREG LEMOND "has rejected calls" for LANCE ARMSTRONG’s "life ban to be reduced." LeMond: "If there’s anybody who deserves a ban, it’s this guy." LeMond said that Armstrong’s doping activities "took a good 10 years out of my life." He said that the seven-time Tour de France winner "was punished not just for doping but for the way he treated people who accused him before he finally admitted his guilt" (London DAILY MAIL, 1/22). ... Ex-Rabobank cycling team doctor and board member GEERT LEINDERS "was banned from the sport for life after an investigation found he supplied riders with performance enhancing drugs." The Belgian physician "was given the sentence by a three-member panel of the North American Court of Arbitration for Sport" (BLOOMBERG, 1/22). ... Brazilian striker FRED is set to join Argentine clubmate MARIO CONCA "by joining the growing ranks of South Americans blazing a trail to China." Conca has received an "offer you can't refuse" from Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG and is prepared to return to the Chinese league. Fred, meanwhile, who "flopped at the World Cup in the number nine shirt for Brazil, is also China-bound," although Globo "did not reveal which club was chasing the 31-year-old, top scorer in the Brazilian league last year" (AFP, 1/22). ... Olympic historian HARRY GORDON "has died." He "was 89." Gordon, who "had a distinguished career as a journalist, sportswriter, foreign correspondent, editor, author and historian, died late on Wednesday afternoon on the Gold Coast." Gordon "had been sick in hospital for the past few weeks with respiratory and other complaints." He was the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committee since '92 and "had been making plans to celebrate his 90th birthday in Melbourne" on Nov. 15 (AAP, 1/22).

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