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HORSE RACING: Mike Tirico will host NBC’s prime-time coverage of the 2016 Breeders’ Cup for the first time. The races from Santa Anita in Arcadia, California on Nov. 5 will be his first career horse racing assignment. Tirico, who joined the network in July, has handled hosting or play-by-play coverage of football, basketball, golf and the Olympics in his career.

IOC: The Russian husband and wife team who felt betrayed by the IOC after blowing the whistle on state-sponsored doping in their homeland are now being offered financial and other assistance by the Olympic body. The International Olympic Committee said Monday that it was providing career opportunities to 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova and her husband, Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official.

DOPING: Russia says the IOC has dropped an investigation into a deceased wrestler who allegedly tested positive for a banned steroid when an old sample was retested. Besik Kudukhov won the silver medal in the men’s freestyle 60-kilogram class at the 2012 Olympics and died the following year in a car crash.

TRACK & FIELD: The IAAF’s ethics board will not open a formal investigation into a British official’s claim of bribery by Qatar’s bid to host the 2017 world track and field championships.

BOXING: Anthony Joshua’s proposed world heavyweight title fight with Wladimir Klitschko in December will not go ahead because Klitschko has a “minor injury.”