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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 25, 2017 file photo, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister speaks to the media during a news conference following Russian Football Union meeting in Moscow, Russia. A new generation of young, talented and above all clean Russian athletes will compete at next month's Winter Olympics, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said in an interview Saturday Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Mutko says Russia’s Olympic athletes will be young, clean

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

A South Korean army soldier stands guard behind a poster showing the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic mascot at the Unification Observation post in Goseong, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

IOC says North Korea to have 22 athletes in 5 Olympic sports

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday Dec. 6, 2017 file photo, the building of the Russian Olympic Committee is seen through a gate decorated with the Olympic rings in Moscow, Russia. The International Olympic Committee says it has created a pool of 389 Russians who are eligible to compete under a neutral flag at next month’s Winter Olympics amid the country’s doping scandal.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

IOC creates pool of Russians eligible for Winter Olympics

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Russians to get ‘neutral’ gray, red uniforms for Olympics

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2006, file photo, Korea's flag-bearers Bora Lee and Jong-In Lee, carrying a unification flag lead their teams into the stadium during the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy. When athletes of the rival Koreas walked together behind a single flag for the first time since their 1945 division at the start of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it was a highly emotional event that came on the wave of reconciliation mood following their leaders’ first-ever summit talks. Eighteen years later, now, the Koreas are pushing to produce a similar drama during the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics. But they haven’t generated as much enthusiastic supports as they had both at home and abroad. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)

Olympic win in view from Korean unity at Pyeongchang Games

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A South Korean soldier, left, and a police officer stand as vehicles carrying the South Korean delegation pass near Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. South Korean delegation departed for Panmunjom on Wednesday morning for talks with North Korea to further discuss the North's paricipation in the upcoming Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: Tillerson says NK responsible for suffering

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FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, women's ice hockey players of South Korea, in white, and North Korea, in red, pose for a photo with International Ice Hockey Federation officials after their Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division II Group A game in Gangneung, South Korea. North and South Korea agreed on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in principle to field a joint women's ice hockey team during next month's Olympics in South Korea, and relayed their position to the International Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Koreas may field a joint women’s hockey team at Olympics

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Olympics keeps ‘door open’ for NKorea at Pyeongchang Games

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FILE - In this Monday April 19, 2010 file photo, the then Dutch transport minister Camiel Eurlings attends a press conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. International Olympic Committee member Camiel Eurlings has resigned amid allegations he assaulted a former girlfriend in 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

IOC member resigns amid claim he assaulted former girlfriend

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, the Russian national flag, right, flies next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The word &quot;Russia&quot; will appear on the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes granted an exemption from the country's doping ban. More than 200 athletes are set to compete in Pyeongchang as an &quot;Olympic Athlete from Russia&quot; if they can prove they aren't tainted by doping. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Russia loses 2 more Olympic silver medals because of doping

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, the Russian national flag, right, flies next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The word &quot;Russia&quot; will appear on the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes granted an exemption from the country's doping ban. More than 200 athletes are set to compete in Pyeongchang as an &quot;Olympic Athlete from Russia&quot; if they can prove they aren't tainted by doping. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

The word ‘Russia’ to appear on Olympic uniforms

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Russian athletes vote with their ballots during an Russian Olympic committee meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Russia's Olympic Committee said on Tuesday that Russian athletes are overwhelmingly in favor of competing at the 2018 Winter Games despite a ban on the national team. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

WADA shares Moscow lab evidence with Olympic sports bodies

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, left, chats with Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori during a joint press conference in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

IOC confident 2020 Tokyo Games will not be tainted by doping

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov attends an Russian Olympic committee meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Russia's Olympic Committee said on Tuesday that Russian athletes are overwhelmingly in favor of competing at the 2018 Winter Games despite a ban on the national team. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian Olympic Committee expects 200 to compete in South Korea

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, from Germany speaks during a media conference after the second day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday banned the Russian Olympic team from the upcoming South Korea games as punishment for doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.(Laurent Gillieron/dpa via AP)

Column: Russia’s Olympic ban in name only: No flag for you!

By JIM LITKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo FIFA president Gianni Infantino, right, and Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Local Organising Committee Chairman attend the 2018 soccer World Cup draw in the Kremlin in Moscow. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 IOC imposed a lifetime Olympic ban on Mutko. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

European lawmakers slam FIFA, IOC for leadership issues

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A woman waves a Russian flag outside of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in front of the Olympic Rings prior to the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC headquarters, in Pully near Lausanne, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games, the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday. (Jean-Christophe Bott, Keystone via AP)

The red Russian uniforms will be gone, but not the athletes

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks at the annual Volunteer of Russia 2017 award ceremony at the Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Putin has moved an inch closer to announcing his intention to seek re-election in the next March's vote, saying he would weigh the move based on public support. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) **FILE**

Vladimir Putin will allow Russians to compete at Pyeongchang Olympics

By James Ellingsworth - Associated Press

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. Russia could be banned from competing at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The decision will come on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 when the International Olympic Committee executive board meets in Lausanne, less than nine weeks before the games open on Feb. 9 in South Korea. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

IOC to allow Russians to compete as neutrals at Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo FIFA president Gianni Infantino, right, and Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister &amp; Local Organising Committee Chairman attend the 2018 soccer World Cup draw in the Kremlin in Moscow. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 IOC imposed a lifetime Olympic ban on Mutko. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Olympic ban for Russia’s World Cup organizing chief

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press