Take World Cup 2018 out of Russia, urges US anti-doping tsar

US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart has urged Fifa to move next year’s World Cup out of Russia.

The head of the US anti- doping federation whose most famous scalp is former seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, was in Dublin yesterday speaking to leaders from 19 National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) at a special summit, hosted by Sport Ireland.

They discussed the McLaren report that revealed serious breaches in Russia’s anti-doping agency, uncovering not just a failure of their anti-doping controls but an approach to cover up and protect Russian athletes who had failed doping tests.