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DENVER -- Semyon Varlamov put recent struggles behind him, and the Colorado Avalanches sputtering offense did the same -- at least for one night.Varlamov had 32 saves, Patrick Wiercioch and Rene Bourque scored 22 seconds apart and the Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Tuesday night.Gabriel Landeskog and Blake Comeau also scored for Colorado, and Wiercioch added an assist for an offense that scored more than three goals for the first time in 12 games.Weve been waiting for this (for) pretty long, Varlamov said of the four goals. Its always nice to see them.Varlamov had been a victim of Colorados lack of offense when he went through a personal five-game losing streak. He struggled, too, posting a 3.07 goals-against average during that stretch, though he bounced back in a losing effort against Boston on Sunday.He followed that 44-save performance with another strong one against the Kings.The team played well in front of me, he said. When the guys score lots of goals it gives you more confidence.Dustin Brown scored for Los Angeles and Peter Budaj stopped 26 shots. It was the Kings fourth straight loss after opening their five-game trip with a win in Toronto.We hit some posts, but we didnt bear down on the chances we had, Drew Doughty said. We have to make our chances count.The Avalanche had not scored a regulation goal for more than five periods before getting two quick ones at the start of the second.Wiercioch broke through when he stuffed the puck between Budajs skate and the post at 1:10 for his second goal of the season.I was skating behind the net and saw him cheating off the post, so I tried it, Wiercioch said. It doesnt work a lot in practice. Maybe he was reading pass because we had a guy coming down in the slot. I was able to get my stick around and jam it off his pad.Bourque then put his stick on Mikko Rantanens shot from the blue line and redirected it past Budaj at 1:32. It was his fifth of the season and third in three games.The Kings had several chances to get back into it before Brown scored. With Tyson Barrie off for hooking, Nic Dowd backhanded the puck to the front of the net and Brown knocked it in to make it 2-1 with 31 seconds left in the period. It was his third of the season and just the second power-play goal in the last 33 chances for the Kings.The Avalanche made it a two-goal game at 11:32 of the third when Comeau beat Budaj with a shot from between the circles. The Kings challenged play, claiming Jarome Iginla interfered with Budaj, but the goal was upheld upon review.We challenged it because the goalies in the blue paint and he gets bumped a little, Kings coach Darryl Sutter said.Landeskog scored an empty-net goal at 18:23 to make it 4-1.Game notes Avalanche C Nathan MacKinnon had a career-high 10 shots on goal. ... 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Along with the huge doping scandal in Russia -- Coe called it cataclysmic -- corruption crept into the IAAF, too, under former president Lamine Diack.Yes, the last year has sorely tested all of us and Im very clear about it, it has sorely tested our fans and supporters out there, Coe said. We have to be mindful of where weve come from, but our responsibility now is to shape the future.Many of the questions posed to Coe at the IAAFs beachside hotel in Ipanema dealt with how the International Olympic Committee had taken different approaches to the IAAF when it came to Russias extensive state-sponsored doping scheme.Coe tread carefully, but hinted at what are clearly differing opinions between the two.One of the issues presented to Coe: Doping whistleblower and 800-meter runner Yuliya Stepanova, who was crucial in helping to reveal Russias wrongdoing, wasnt allowed by the IOC to compete at the Olympics while sprinter Justin Gatlin, banned twice for doping, can.It is the IOCs event, Coe said. But he also offered this: If athletes are prepared to stick theiir heads above the parapet and help, then we should recognize that.ddddddddddddSpeaking about Gatlin, Coe, who would prefer dopers be banned for life, said: I cant change my view on that, but he is eligible to compete and he should be accorded the same courtesy that any athlete within those codes and those rules is accorded.And Coe was asked about the IOCs decision to back away from a ban on all Russian competitors at the Olympics despite the countrys state-sponsored doping, when the IAAF took the bold decision to ban all Russian track and field athletes.Organizations made judgments that they presumably felt was in the best interests of those organizations, Coe said. We certainly made a judgment in athletics. The IOC made a judgment, it was endorsed by IOC members, and Im not sure I can add any more than that.Where the IOC and the IAAF are together is a preference for life bans for serial dopers -- someone like Gatlin. Following IOC President Thomas Bachs announcement that the Olympic body might pursue the possibility of life bans again -- life bans have twice been struck down by sports highest court -- Coe said the IAAF would be open to that.With the body facing a long road back to winning fans trust, the IAAF council had this week ratified proposals to change the way it works, Coe said. Those proposals will go to a special congress of all the sports national federations in December to be voted on and hopefully, he said, approved. The changes included setting up a body completely independent of the IAAF to deal with the sports doping and ethics issues.No change was not an option, Coe said. ' ' '