October 17, 2016 (Lahti, Finland) – According to a recent report in Europe Online, FIS may yet strip Russia of ski competitions this coming season depending on the outcome of further investigations into the state-sponsored doping affair. While no collective punishment or ban is supposedly planned FIS president Gian Franco Kasper is quoted as saying “It can‘t be ruled out that all international events in Russia will be cancelled next season because of the state doping.”

Kasper made the comments while at the Forum Nordicum event in Lahti. Apparently WADA investigator, Richard McLaren, will also be releasing a second report addressing the alleged tampering of Russian athlete samples at the official laboratory during the Sochi 2014 Games to conceal substance abuse.

Read Europe Online here.
Read McLaren Report #1 here.