Ian Chesterman said revelations about the extent of doping cover-ups in Sochi had left him angry and disappointed.

As Russia prepares to host the world’s biggest sporting event, the soccer World Cup in 2018, the chef de mission lobbied for the country to be stripped of the bobsleigh world championships and questioned whether it is ready to be trusted again.

“I cannot see how Russia has the right to host any major international sporting event until it can convince people it is running a squeaky clean operation,” Chesterman told Fairfax Media.

“What they did is like inviting someone into your home and then stealing money out of their wallet while they were there. It’s a violation of trust.”

The Legana-based communications specialist has just returned from a fact-finding mission to the Korean city of PyeongChang where he will lead the Australian team for the sixth time at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

He said details revealed in the World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned report indicated a blatant disregard for Olympic values.

Published in July last year, Richard McLaren’s report said Russia's sports ministry "directed, controlled and oversaw" manipulation of its athletes’ urine samples.

It said a state-sponsored doping program incorporated the Summer Olympics of 2012 and Sochi two years later and contained such details as holes in walls through which positive samples were replaced with clean ones.

“That was clearly built with cheating in mind and that just beggars belief,” said Chesterman.

“It is the most disappointing thing I have seen at an Olympics, that a host country would abuse the trust put in them by the international sporting community.”

Chesterman, who has led the Australian team at every Winter Games since 1998 and was promoted to vice-president of the Australian Olympic Committee last September, said Sochi and Russia were merely the custodians of the Games.

“A host never owns the Games. Its job is to nurture them and pass them onto the next host enhanced. To abuse the trust put in them by the Olympic movement by systematically cheating is nothing short of appalling.

“Athletes go along to an Olympic Games expecting to compete on a level playing field, or that anyone cheating will be caught.”

Chesterman stressed that no Australians were denied medals by the practice “but clearly lots of countries were”.

Asked whether he thought Russia should forfeit the right to host the soccer World Cup, he added: “In a perfect world that’s what would happen.

“They have lost the right until they put in the hard work to regain the faith of the international sporting community.

“Such a breach of faith will not easily be forgotten.”

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has previously described the commission's findings as a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games".