The Watford-born chief of British Bobsleigh has called for justice to run its course in the wake of the damning report into "state-sponsored, fail-safe" doping throughout Russian Olympic sport.

The findings in Richard McLaren's report which was commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency are of particular interest to performance director Gary Anderson, whose men's four-man team finished fifth, behind two Russian crews, at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, missing out on a medal by just 0.11 seconds.

The Sochi Games were singled out by McLaren as a particular source of doping violations, centring on the clandestine "sample-swapping" operation run by whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenko in the city's anti-doping laboratory.

Alexander Zubkov, pilot of the gold medal-winning Russian four-man team, was implicated by name in an article in the New York Times in May, but has strongly denied the allegations and described them as "simply lunacy".

Anderson told Press Association Sport: "After reading the report it is fairly obvious that there was a systematic approach (to doping) taken here, and a number of athletes and sports are implicated, sliding sports included.

"In bobsleigh the margins are tiny and it is imperative that all athletes have a level playing field on which to compete. In Sochi we finished fifth by a matter of hundredths of a second, so any advantage can make a difference.

"I think Professor McLaren has made it clear that his remit was not to name individuals and I think that is a job for the World Anti-Doping Agency, the IOC and in particular our governing body, the IBSF (International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation), to continue their investigations."

The IBSF was unavailable for comment on Tuesday, but has previously maintained Zubkov is "innocent until proven guilty". Now retired, Zubkov was voted president of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation in spite of the allegations against him. The 2017 IBSF World Championships are scheduled for Sochi.

Notwithstanding the specific interest on results at the Sochi Winter Olympics, McLaren's findings are set to increase calls for the current ban on Russian track and field athletes in Rio next month to be extended to all sports.

Currently, only Russian athletes who have been individually cleared by the IAAF because they have verifiably clean records, will be able to compete under the IOC flag in Rio, although Russia are currently appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.