FIFA to fly samples 5,000 miles to Switzerland during 2014 World Cup to ensure 'zero doping'

World football governing FIFA will reportedly fly blood and urine samples taken at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil from Rio Janeiro to a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland 5,000 miles away to ensure that the event is clean and doping free.

FIFA was forced to take the step after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended testing at a laboratory in Rio and took away its accreditation to conduct anti-doping tests after it failed to meet WADA's International Standard for Laboratories (ISL).

According to CNN, a FIFA statement said that the body has decided to use the WADA accredited laboratory in Lausanne for the shipment of samples overseas, adding that they will ensure the proper implementation of the new strategy in the fight against doping by means of the steroid module of the Athlete Biological Passport.

WADA president John Fahey accepted that flying samples across the Atlantic Ocean is not ideal, but insisted the logistical hurdles were 'not insurmountable', the report added.