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KHL president waiting to decide on Olympics

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The president of the Kontinenta­l Hockey League said he is waiting to find out how many Russians will be banned from the Pyeongchan­g Olympics before deciding if he will allow his players to compete in South Korea. Dmitry Cher

nyshenko, the head of the organizing committee for the 2014 Sochi Olympics but now president of the KHL, said “we’ll understand who’s going and who’s not going and then the league will respond accordingl­y.” The Moscowbase­d KHL, widely considered the strongest league outside the NHL, previously expressed outrage at bans for Russian athletes in other sports tainted by doping at the Sochi Olympics. No allegation­s have been made of wrongdoing in Sochi by the Russian men’s hockey team.

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