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    Keir RADNEDGE

    Dec 27, 2019 4 minutes

    FIFA on collision course over Russia doping

    Gianni Infantino is becoming a member of the International Olympic Committee just in time to weigh into the storm over Russia’s ban from international sport, which will loom over the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Games and the 2022 World Cup.

    FIFA does not take kindly to being ordered around by outsiders, hence the continuing resentment in Zurich at the FIFAGate assault by the FBI in 2015 and the coat-tails follow-through by the Swiss attorney-general.

    That circle-the-wagons stance is written into the statutes of not only FIFA but all six regional confederations and the 211 national associations, thereby prohibiting interference from

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