The road to redemption for drug-scarred athletics looks like an ultramarathon
If Lord Coe thought that pulling off the London 2012 Olympics was hard, his latest task, preserving his own reputation and rescuing the reputation of his sport as the now beleaguered boss of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is nothing short of Herculean.
Many elite athletes, including myself, will tell you they have never used performance-enhancing drugs. I couldn’t even tell you how or where to find the stuff. The problem we now have is that no one believes us. And that is understandable in the light of today’s seismic report into the “state-sponsored doping programme” that was allegedly run by the Russians.… Seguir leyendo »