Russia stripped of bobsleigh and skeleton World Championships

The Latvian Skeleton Federation announced last week that it would boycott the event if it was held in Russia.

Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold has hailed the decision to strip Sochi of next year's bobsleigh and skeleton World Championships in the wake of the second McLaren report into state-sponsored doping in Russia.

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation announced the move on Tuesday after coming under increasing pressure to act once the extent of the report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren became apparent.