The WADA inquiry published Monday confirmed claims widespread doping across Russian summer and winter sports was tied to the government ministry headed by Mutko. The report alleged an additional 11 positive tests of Russian soccer players were made to disappear in the state-sponsored doping program from late 2011 to 2015. A previous Mutko interview " conducted last September in Zurich for an earlier WADA report of doping cover-ups and corruption in Russian track and field " was "singularly unhelpful," McLaren said Monday. His status was unclear Monday after Russian President Vladimir Putin said all officials directly implicated in a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry report will be suspended. FIFA made no mention of Mutko in its own statement about the McLaren report and said it will ask WADA to share information about alleged cover-ups of doping in Russian soccer.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 18, 2016 18:11 UTC