Athletics: the Russian doping scandal
You might have thought you were inured to the scale of doping in modern sport, said Nick Greenslade in The Sunday Times. But nothing could have prepared any of us for the extraordinary allegations about Russia and how far it has gone to give its athletes an advantage. The evidence is so overwhelming that, last year, the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) saw fit to accuse the country of “state-sponsored doping”; it threw the book at Russia, suspending it from international athletics indefinitely. And in recent weeks, there have been even more damaging revelations. When the International Olympic Committee retested samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, it found that 54 athletes tested positive. Remarkably, almost half (22) were Russian.
But that’s nothing compared to the scandal of…
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