FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference prior to the Final Draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup football tournament in Moscow. Photo: Alexander NEMENOV / AFPFIFA president Gianni Infantino on Friday sought to distance football from any suspicions of the widespread doping in other sports that have cast a cloud over World Cup hosts Russia.
Russia have been stripped of a third of the medals they won as hosts of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and last week a ban on the country taking part in international athletics was upheld by the sport’s governing body the IAAF.
Next Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee will meet to decide whether to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, over allegations that it ran a state-sponsored doping programme for years.
But Infantino claimed that the level of testing in football is sufficient to show that the game is largely clean.
Doping Not A Big Problem In The Sport, Says Infantino
