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FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2015 file photo Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko gestures during a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Players from Russia's under-21 national soccer team had suspicious drug-test samples covered up, emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation show. Another case in the Russian league was allegedly covered up by then-Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who is also in charge of the country's World Cup preparations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

IOC opens 28 new doping cases for Russian Olympic athletes

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) poses for a portrait at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)

T.J. Oshie, known for Olympics success, looks to make his mark on Capitals

By Zac Boyer - The Washington Times

Sarkar-Rasmussen after 14…Re8.

DAVID R. SANDS: Busted bracket: U.S. women bounced from chess tournament

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, speaks during a news conference accompanied by Brazil’s Sport Minister George Hilton at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The IOC's coordination commission is visiting venues and meeting with local organizers as Rio races to be ready on time for South America's first games, set for 2016. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

IOC board won’t meet during Sochi sports summit

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Carlsen-Anand, Game 11, after 35…Bc5.

DAVID R. SANDS: A tougher fight, but Magnus Carlsen prevails to retain world chess crown

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Carlsen-Anand, Game 5, after 25...Rdg8.

DAVID R. SANDS: Magnus Carlsen clings to lead in world title chess match after epic draw

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Anand-Carlsen, Game 1, after 41…Qe4-c2.

DAVID R. SANDS: Ominous echoes for Anand as Carlsen takes chess title match lead

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Norway's Magnus Carlsen, currently the top ranked chess player in the world, makes a move as he plays against India's former World Champion Vishwanathan Anand at the FIDE World Chess Championship Match in Sochi, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev)

Anand, Carlsen battle to draw in first game of chess title match

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Japanese figure skaters Mao Asada speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, May 19, 2014. Asada said she is taking a season off from competitive skating but said there is a 50 percent chance she will return to the sport. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Mao Asada to take a year off from figure skating

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Sochi hockey team confirmed by KHL

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, a worker waits for customers at a ticket booth selling amusement rides at Riviera Park in central Sochi, Russia. Vladimir Putin isn’t the only one who has a lot riding on the success of the Sochi Olympics. Local businesses and residents have a lot to gain if these Olympics fulfill Putin’s pledge to turn Sochi and its environs from a summer playground for well-off Russians into a year-round international resort for everyone. But that’s a big “if.” (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Sochi’s merchants ride Putin’s Olympic dream

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Caucasian boys look through binoculars from a hill overlooking Sochi Olympic Park before the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, as the sun sets over the Black Sea Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Part of the Olympic park in background with Fisht Olympic Stadium, top left, and Bolshoi Ice Dome, to right of Fisht. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

SOCHI SCENE: The long-term plan

Associated Press

Construction work continues apace outside the Gorki Plaza East hotel in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. The IOC is urging Russian Olympic organizers to move quickly to resolve the issue of accommodations that are not ready for accredited media personnel in the mountains outside Sochi. According to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic organizing committee, only six of the nine media hotels in the mountain area are fully operational. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

IOC: Hotel delays not affecting athlete families

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2013 file photo, Semyon Simonov helps a migrant worker at his office in Sochi, where he provides free legal aid to workers building Olympic venues. A lawyer for Simonov and Moscow-based prisoner rights activist Nikolai Levshits said Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, that the two men have filed a lawsuit against the Sochi Olympics organizers after they were barred from attending the games. Simonov has documented widespread abuse of migrant workers at Olympic construction sites. (AP Photo/Igor Yakunin, File)

Activists in court over access to Sochi Games

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 photo made available by Presidential Press Service on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a translation during an interview to Russian and foreign media at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, which will host Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 7, 2014. President Vladimir Putin once again has offered assurances to gays planning to attend the Sochi Olympics, but his arguments defending Russia’s ban on homosexual “propaganda” to minors show the vast gulf between how he understands the issues and how homosexuality is generally viewed in the West. In an interview with Russian and foreign television stations broadcast Sunday, Putin equated gays with pedophiles and spoke of the need for Russia to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality as part of efforts to increase the birth rate. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Sochi still scrambling to sell Olympic tickets

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

U.S. Olympic figure skaters Polina Edmunds and Jason Brown carry a flag and wave to the crowd at the end of their skating spectacular after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Skating body picks Wagner over Nagasu for Olympics

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press