‘FIFA won't do a damn thing’: Lifetime Olympic ban for Russia World Cup organiser will have ‘no impact’

Vitaly Mutko is now Russia's deputy prime minister, president of the Russian Football Union and the chairman of the organising committee for Russia 2018.

‘FIFA won't do a damn thing’: Lifetime Olympic ban for Russia World Cup organiser will have ‘no impact’

The lawyer of the whistle-blower who uncovered Russia's state-sponsored doping programme believes FIFA has "zero interest" in finding out if the hosts of the next World Cup have been cheating at football, too.

Ex-Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Dr Grigory Rodchenkov's evidence was at the heart of Tuesday's decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend Russia from February's Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

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