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Soccer’s world governing body has declared Russia’s World Cup players free of doping but said it will continue to investigate other soccer players in the country.

In an investigation sparked by evidence provided by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), FIFA said on May 22 that it has been examining the drug-testing samples of Russian players seized from Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory along with information and data provided by the Moscow lab’s former director turned whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenkov.

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