• Mutko criticised in Wada’s report into Russian athletics
• Sports minister is chairman of committee organising 2018 World CupFifa’s ethics committee is to examine the World Anti-Doping Agency report into drug misuse in Russian athletics for potential misconduct by the country’s sports minister,Vitaly Mutko, a Fifa executive committee member who was heavily criticised at the report’s launch.
Dick Pound, and the former Wada president who chaired the independent commission which found a enormous “state sponsored doping programme” in Russia,accused Mutko at the report’s launch of having been “aware” and “complicit” in the doping and its cover-up. Compounding the difficulty for Fifa of the report’s devastating findings of government-sanctioned doping within the country hosting the 2018 World Cup, Mutko is the chairman of the committee organising the tournament.
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Source: theguardian.com