JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- An independent commission is to be set up for cycling doping investigation, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President John Fahey said on Tuesday.

Fahey will meet with Brian Cookson, the new president of cycling governing body UCI, on Wednesday to discuss the fallout from the Lance Armstrong scandal.

The outgoing WADA chief said it would take "something close to a miracle" for Armstrong's life ban to be reduced in return for cooperating with the investigation.

Fahey said it is "almost certain" that the doping laboratory in Brazil which had its WADA accreditation revoked would not be ready in time for next year's World Cup.

As a result, FIFA announced that it had reached a deal to fly the hundreds of player samples before and during the football showpiece from Brazil to a WADA-accredited lab in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Fahey also used Tuesday's news conference to announce a new "steroid module" that will come into use in 2014. The new technology will mirror the biological passport that currently tracks athletes' blood profile and will help detect steroid use and particularly testosterone, Fahey said.

He said the steroid module is ready to run and FIFA said it would use it at the World Cup, one of the first federations to implement the procedure.

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