
Russia's hosting of the World Cup is becoming increasingly problematic for FIFA's leaders after the International Olympic Committee withdrew support for sporting events being staged in the doping-tainted nation. The IOC's move followed this week's second damning World Anti-Doping Agency report, which accused Russia of state-sponsored doping. The scandal landed at FIFA's door after Russian soccer was for the first time implicated in the alleged doping cover-up by a country that has been entrusted with soccer's most prestigious event in 2018.
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