100 metres World Champion banned

[Cleve van Leef]

That's an amazing stat about the fifty fastest times. I agree about life bans, but I reckon that policy would be one court challenge away from being overturned on something like human rights grounds.

I'm not sure if there was one single incident when it happened, but sometime within the last thirty odd years the athletics watching public lost faith in the sport and I struggle to see how that faith can be restored- for myself, I always looked at it differently after the 1988 Olympics where one of the sprint champions was shown to be a drugs cheats and there were strong suspicions about the other one.

The East Germans and the Russians were always viewed as cheat and drug takers, as you say the 1988 Olympics changed that with Ben Johnson and since then it’s become widespread.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

The East Germans and the Russians were always viewed as cheat and drug takers, as you say the 1988 Olympics changed that with Ben Johnson and since then it’s become widespread.

Who had the most medals after the USA in 2016 ?

Our old friends China. Rumour is, their athletes slept hanging by their toes from the rafters..