{"id":15130,"date":"2015-12-24T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/russian-sports-minister-denies-govt-cover-ups\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:00:38","slug":"russian-sports-minister-denies-govt-cover-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/russian-sports-minister-denies-govt-cover-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian sports minister denies gov&#8217;t  cover-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW<\/strong> \u2014 Russia\u2019s sports minister says accusations that the government is covering up doping of athletes are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s track and field federation was suspended in November after a World Anti-Doping Agency panel accused the country of operating a widespread, state-sponsored doping program and covering up positive tests.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says \u201cto blame such a country as Russia that we, on an absolute government level, are covering something up is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says individual athletes should take responsibility for staying clean.<\/p>\n<p>Mutko says the government \u201ccannot sleep together with each of the athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds: \u201cHow can I control them? What can I do to them? It\u2019s silly, don\u2019t you understand?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 Russia\u2019s <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/\">sports<\/a> minister says accusations that the government is covering up doping of athletes are unfounded. Russia\u2019s track and field federation was suspended in November after a World Anti-Doping Agency panel accused the country of operating a widespread, state-sponsored doping program and covering up positive tests. Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says \u201cto blame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}