A player in Russia’s World Cup squad is a drugs cheat, says doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov.
Grigory Rodchenkov is former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory. He recently revealed that one of the squad was on a list of 34 footballers that he helped cover up.
“I saw the names of those at the World Cup and I recognised one,” he said.
Fifa investigated the 34 names that were handed to it following the McLaren reports, which found 1,000 Russian athletes across 30 sports benefited from state-sponsored doping between 2012 and 2015.
Last week Fifa said it had ended a doping investigation into Russian footballers because of “insufficient evidence”.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said it agreed with Fifa’s decision to close the cases.