In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

[Q]: (CNN) The chairman of Russia's successful 2018 World Cup local organizing committee is stepping down amid allegations that he and other government officials supervised and financed state-sponsored doping, state-run media reported Wednesday. Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, who served as minister of sport from 2008 to 2016, is presently fighting a lifetime ban from the Olympics. Alexey Sorokin, general director of the committee's supervisory council, will now assume Mutko's role as well. In a statement to Russian television network RT, he said he regretted that Mutko had resigned, but that the deputy prime minister would continue to supervise World Cup preparations.FIFA says, as it did after Olympics ban, Mutko's absence will not affect World CupMutko: There "has never been and will never be any state programs related to doping"
[A]: "I am not resigning and my mandate will be still valid," Mutko said, according to _.


[Q]: London (CNN) -- Julian Assange demanded that the United States drop its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks on Sunday as he made his first public appearance after months effectively confined to the Embassy of Ecuador in London. "As WikiLeaks stands under threat, so does the freedom of expression and the health of all our societies," the founder of website said to cheers from his supporters outside the embassy. "The U.S. war on whistle-blowers must end," Assange said, calling for the freedom of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier suspected of giving hundreds of thousands of pages of secret American government documents to Assange for publication on WikiLeaks.NEW: UNASUR backs Ecuador and calls for dialogue to resolve the standoffJulian Assange links WikiLeaks to freedom of expression around the worldThe founder of WikiLeaks hadn't been seen since June, or spoken in public since MarchEcuador's president says Britain threatened to raid the embassy to arrest Assange
[A]: Ecuador raised the stakes in its diplomatic row with the United Kingdom on Thursday, officially offering _ asylum in the South American country.


[Q]: Hartlepool defender Scott Harrison wasted no time in taking advantage of a stricken referee as he used the official’s vanishing spray during the clash with Oxford United. Referee Patrick Miller tumbled to the deck during the game at the Kassam Stadium before players from both sides surrounded him to check he was alright. However, 21-year-old Harrison saw the incident as his chance to have a go with the spray himself. Team-mate Neil Austin picked up the canister after it had fallen out of the pocket of the official as he fell to the floor. Referee Patrick Miller tumbles to the deck during the game at the Kassam Stadium on Wednesday nightReferee Patrick Miller tumbled to the deck during a League Two clashHartlepool defender Scott Harrison took advantage of the incidentHe borrowed the vanishing spray to draw a line round the stricken officialMiller was carried off on a stretcher as Hartlepool beat Oxford 2-0
[A]:
Hartlepool are rooted to the bottom of _, but team spirit is certainly not an issue as he amused his fellow team-mates.