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The U.S. Olympic Committee has approved a nearly 25 percent funding increase to the country's anti-doping agency, choosing money over words in an effort to fix a worldwide system that CEO Scott Blackmun says is broken.

The USOC board on Thursday approved the increase starting next year from $3.7 million to $4.6 million annually for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which is tasked with testing American Olympic athletes, along with international competitors who train in the United States.

The money will have little impact on Russia, which is the focal point of a doping crisis that threatens the country's participation in the Rio Games.

But it's one of the true, tangible moves the federation could take in the anti-doping fight.

Blackmun said the system's dysfunction is a threat to the Olympic system.