MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin’s spokesman said on Wednesday that a failed drug test by Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova should not be “projected onto” the whole of Russian sport.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman, added on a conference call with journalists that Russia was against attempts to politicize sporting matters.
Reporting by Denis Dyomkin; Writing by Polina Devitt and Alexander Winning; Editing by Dmitry Solovyov
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