LONDON (AP) The Latest from the IAAF investigation (all times local):
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5:20 p.m.
French prosecutors say a police search found 87,000 euros ($93,000) in cash in the house of the IAAF's former head of anti-doping, Gabriel Dolle.
Dolle was taken in for questioning and subsequently placed under formal investigation on a corruption charge earlier this month.
Franck Charon, general secretary for the national financial prosecutions office in Paris, said the money was found in Dolle's house near Nice in the south of France.
Dolle was the director of the IAAF anti-doping department until last year. He was released from police custody on 100,000 euro ($110,000) bail.
French prosecutors have previously said that Dolle is suspected of taking about 200,000 euros ($220,000) in bribes in an alleged cover-up of positive Russian doping tests.
Former IAAF president Lamine Diack and an attorney who worked for him, Habib Cisse, are also under formal investigation - Diack on preliminary charges of corruption and aggravated money laundering, Cisse on only the corruption charge.
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4:25 p.m.
The Russian Olympic Committee has asked a key figure in Russia's doping scandal to resign from its executive board.
Valentin Balakhnichev was president of the Russian track federation for more than 20 years until February, when he resigned during the World Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Russia. However, he stayed on to represent the track federation at the national Olympic committee.
The report published Monday said Balakhnichev was ''ultimately responsible'' for doping and cover-ups at the federation during his tenure and linked him to instances in which money was allegedly extorted from athletes.
The Russian Olympic committee's ethics commission met Thursday and recommended he resign, saying that was the only case on the agenda.
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2:25 p.m.
The Russian track federation says it will partially admit to the charges leveled against it by the World Anti-Doping Agency commission as it bids to keep its place in competition.
Acting federation president Vadim Zelichenok says Russia has prepared a response to the sport's governing body, whose council is due to decide Friday on whether to suspend Russia. That could open the door to exclusion from next year's Olympics.
Zelichenok says that in the response ''we admit some things, we argue with some things, some are already fixed, it's a variety,'' but declined to provide further details, saying ''it's not for the press.''
Russia will be represented at the IAAF vote, which will take place via conference call, by Mikhail Butov, who is both the federation's general secretary and also an IAAF council member.
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1:50 p.m.
The Russian doping scandal entered the arena of international diplomacy Thursday as the Foreign Ministry slammed the published report as ''biased'' and ''politicized.''
At a weekly briefing in Moscow, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says ''no one asks for or listens to the arguments of the Russian side'' and that sources for information in the report appeared to be ''extremely doubtful.''
She also said that banning the entire Russian track and field team was ''absolutely unacceptable'' and marked ''an attempt to introduce the principle of collective punishment into the area of sport.''
Her comments come a day after President Vladimir Putin said clean athletes should be left free to compete and ordered Russian officials to conduct an independent investigation.
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1:30 p.m.
With suspension looming, Olympic hopefuls in Russia remain upbeat about their chances of competing in Rio de Janeiro.
At a training camp near Sochi, the host city of last year's Winter Olympics, some athletes wondered why the focus is firmly on Russia.
Maxim Sidorov, a shot putter who competed at the 2012 Olympics, says even if Russian athletes were guilty of doping, ''other countries do it as well. Why aren't they disqualified?''
Former European 400-meter relay champion Ksenia Aksyonova says ''everywhere there are problems.''
Her coach, Rif Babikov, adds that a ban for Russia would be ''a disaster for athletes'' comparable to the 1980 and 1984 Olympic boycotts when ''nothing good'' came out of it.
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12:05 p.m.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko tells The Associated Press the country has no intention of boycotting next year's Olympics, even if the track and field team is banned.
Track's governing body is expected to rule Friday on whether to suspend Russia from competition because of the doping scandal. Mutko says he plans to speak with IAAF President Sebastian Coe ahead of the decision.
Mutko says even if Russia is suspended ''we don't plant to boycott anything anywhere,'' calling Russia ''a dependable partner of the international Olympic movement.''
Mutko also appealed for Russian athletes to be allowed to compete, saying ''it's about protecting the athletes with clean consciences.''
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11:30 a.m.
VTB first deputy president Vasily Titov says the end of the partnership deal with governing body of track and field is not related to the Russian doping scandal.
Titov tells the RIA Novosti news agency ''it has run out ... We think that all the goals have been achieved regarding this. We have not planned to extend (the contract). No, it's not linked to the doping scandal in any way.''
VTB is majority owned by the Russian government.
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11:10 a.m.
In the wake of the doping scandal, the governing body of track and field says Russian bank VTB has decided not to renew its partnership deal.
The IAAF says ''VTB has expressed no interest to extend its present contract, the last event of which was the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. The contract will come to a natural end in 2015.''
VTB became the first Russian company to sign a sponsorship contract with the IAAF in 2006.
