Definition: 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 _ .
Input: (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"
Output:
"I am not resigning and my mandate will be still valid," Mutko said, according to _.