The Russian city of Sochi has lost the right to host the 2017 bobsleigh and skeleton World Championships.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation claimed that it would not be "prudent" to hold the championships in Russia, a country accused of state-sponsored doping.
The IBSF decision comes after Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren last week released the second part of a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report.
McLaren's dossier made further claims that Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for its athletes between 2011 and 2015, including over the period of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
According to Russia's RIA news agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the decision to strip Sochi of the championships was "politicised and without grounds".
It is understood that a number of German venues have offered to host the event, along with the Swiss town of St Moritz.
