Putin to meet Russia's Olympic team on Wednesday: agencies

[July 26, 2016]    MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin will meet Russia's Olympic team on Wednesday before they head off to the games in Rio, Russian news agencies cited the Kremlin as saying on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with leaders of political parties, presented at the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia, July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool

The meeting had originally been planned for July 22, but was postponed amid a widening doping scandal which saw Russian track-and-field athletes banned from the games along with sportspeople from other disciplines.

(Reporting by Anton Zverev; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov and Valdimir Soldatkin; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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