Tokyo 2020: 'We are in a dreadful state' says Russian athlete Lasitskene Three-time world champion in the high jump Mariya Lasitskene says she hopes recent changes in the Russian government will help her country's athletes go on to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Russia's President Vladimir Putin has replaced sports minister Pavel Kolobkov and his predecessor Tuesday following a doping scandal that has seen the country banned from this summer's Olympics. Kolobkov has been replaced by Oleg Matytsin, a sports administrator who heads a student sporting federation, in the new government under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES