Medal targets double

UK SPORT are looking for maximum impact when they announce their medal targets for the Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics — double the four and six medals respectively they won in Sochi. They will announce double their investment on January 9, one month before PyeongChang 2018. The event is being held at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea rather than UK Sport’s functional office. lAROUND

25 sports federations will be told today by the World Anti-Doping Agency the identity of more than 300 Russians who had positive drugs tests changed at the Moscow laboratory between 2011-15, as first revealed by

Sports Agenda. IF FIFA, as expected, are one of the federations informed of more Russian drugs cheating, then it will only increase the pressure on World Cup 2018 chief Vitaly Mutko, who has already been banned from the Olympics for life.