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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach was “unlikely” to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid increased concerns about the situation in Ukraine. “I don’t know about [Bach’s] plans, I would think he would be concentrating on the Games and on the kind of wider issue of what the Games can portray and the Olympic truce, and I think that’s what we have to concentrate on, on our political neutrality,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters during a press briefing on Sunday. “I don’t know, I would think [Bach calling Putin] is unlikely,” he said. “Words and symbols are…