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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- With another report on Russian doping looming at the end of this week, the presidents of the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency met Monday to clear the air over their perceived differences over the handling of previous evidence of systematic cheating in Russia.IOC President Thomas Bach and WADA head Craig Reedie said they agreed to put aside any disagreements and move forward together in tackling doping and protecting clean athletes.There was a very positive atmosphere in our meeting today, and I am very happy that any perceived misunderstandings could be clarified, Bach said. We agreed to continue to work closely together to strengthen the fight against doping under the leadership of WADA.The two men met ahead of a three-day meeting beginning Tuesday, in Lausanne, of the International Olympic Committee executive board. On Friday in London, WADA investigator Richard McLaren will release his latest findings on Russian doping, including evidence of manipulation of samples at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.The IOC and WADA clashed over the summer after the agency recommended that Russia be banned outright from the Rio de Janeiro Games. The IOC rejected that call, instead allowing international federations to decide which Russians could compete.This was a very constructive meeting with a good atmosphere, Reedie said. We share a common goal to strengthen the fight against doping and to protect the clean athletes and in this direction we will closely cooperate.The IOC said it was confident that progress was being made on reforming WADAs governance and setting up an independent drug-testing unit under the agencys umbrella ahead of the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Reedie, an IOC member from Britain, was re-elected last month to another three-year term as WADA president. That came after some leading Olympic officials had publicly called for a neutral president to take over.McLarens first report, issued in July, detailed state-backed doping programs and cover-ups in Russia across more than two dozen summer and winter Olympic sports. His latest report is expected to focus on Sochi, including allegations by the former Russian lab director that he helped dope Russian athletes before the games and swapped tainted samples for clean one through a concealed hole in the wall at the lab.Without knowing the contents of McLarens report, the IOC board is expected to issue a statement setting out how it will deal with the new findings -- including the possibility of stiff sanctions.The report will be sent to two commissions that the IOC has set up to look into the allegations.Bach said last month that once the investigations and hearings are completed, the IOC will take the necessary measures and all the sanctions because if only part of this would be true, it would be an unprecedented attack on the integrity on the Olympic Games and on the Olympic competitions.The IOC will also review the result of its retesting of stored samples from the 2012 London Olympics and 2008 Beijing Games, a program which has produced about 100 positive cases so far. 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Irving scored 23 points, Tristan Thompson had 20 points and 10 rebounds and the Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 117-109 on Friday night. Lancashire batsman Haseeb Hameed will become the youngest debutant to open for England in Test cricket, in the first match against India in Rajkot.Hameed, aged 19 and 297 days by the time the game starts, will become Englands fifth-youngest Test debutant, and Alastair Cooks tenth opening partner since the 2012.Ben Duckett, who opened the batting in Bangladesh and made a sparky half-century in his final innings of the series, will move down to No. 4 to accommodate Hameed. Gary Ballance, who scored just 24 runs in four innings in Bangladesh, was dropped from the XI for Rajkot.Hameed enjoyed a breakthrough season in the 2016 Championship campaign. Opening the batting for Lancashire, he scored almost 1200 runs at an average of 49.91. The four centuries he scored included two in a match against a strong Yorkshire attack. As a right-hander, he will also correct a slight imbalance in an England top order that, in Bangladesh, saw five left-handers in their top six.While he was born in Bolton, Hameed has a strong affiliation with India and Gujarat in particular. His parents - who will be at the game - were born here and his brother was married here in recent days. He names Sachin Tendulkar, who he met as a seven-year-old, and Virat Kohli among his heroes and, in 2010, he travelled to Mumbai to learn to bat on the citys maidans that have been the breeding ground of many fine cricketers.Haseeb has impressed everyone so far on this trip, Cook said. You wonder if a 19-year-old, coming on tour, will be overawed but he hasnt been at all. He has looked really good in the nets and the way he has gone about his business. Its obviously a very special day to pick someone so young.He is incredibly unflappable. He looks a very good player of spin. He picks length well and uses the crease well. Stuart Broad bowled at him last summer and was almost straight on the phone to me saying how impressed he was with this guy.He is one of those natural run-scorers. All through his age group, whatevver team and whatever standard, he has scored runs.dddddddddddd. Its probably a year earlier than he would have thought. But to average 50-odd as an opener in Division One as a 19-year-old is an incredible feat. I was nowhere near the player he is at 19.Of course there will be some tough moments for him over the next few of playing Test cricket, but I think this guy can play.While Cook admitted it was not ideal to move Duckett down the order after two Tests, he did not foresee any negative impact. Hes a pretty unflappable character, Cook said. Historically he has played all his cricket in the middle order until the last year. Hes comfortable batting anywhere.Hameeds selection means no place for Jos Buttler, who has only played one first-class match since he was dropped a year ago, or Ballance, who has averaged only 19.90 in the six Tests since he was recalled in July and failed to reach 30 in his last seven innings.It was a tough decision, Cook said. Jos has played some really good one-day cricket on this tour and his batting looks in really good shape in the nets. But he hasnt played that much first-class cricket. Gary hasnt scored the runs he would have liked.Cook also played down talk about his imminent retirement as captain, after being quoted by the Cricketer magazine as saying: I dont know how much longer I am going to carry on. It could be two months, it could be a year.But talking ahead of the Test, Cook reiterated his oft-stated view that he will take the role series by series.Its a mountain out of a mole hill, he said. Its been blown out of proportion. Since the World Cup, I have been very open and we have taken it series by series. It could be two months, six months or two years.The Rajkot game will represent the 55th time Cook has captained England at Test level, surpassing the previous record of 54 times by Michael Atherton. ' ' '