I vividly remember finding out about the Russian doping scandal of 2014.

Like most people, I was in utter disbelief about the revelations of the covert holes in walls, the swapped doping samples, the skulking about in the dead of night and the heights the corruption reached within Russia (spoiler: it went right to the very top in Russia).

It was, quite justifiably, called the biggest state-sponsored doping programme in the history of sport and caused absolute outrage around the world.

How, everyone wondered, could such a widespread and systematic doping programme have been allowed to flourish in the way it did within Russia a decade ago?

And it was uncovered, remember, not by any anti-doping organisations but rather because a whistleblower lifted the lid. Without said whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov, we may never have found out about the hundreds of Russian athletes that were cheating.

Maybe I was naïve, but I thought we’d never see anything like the Russian scandal again.

I believed that there was a widespread will from those right at the top of anti-doping all the way down to clean up sport and make sure countries like Russia never got away with such blatant cheating again.

How wrong I was.

Over the past week, another quite astonishing story has emerged.

And it’s convinced me that yes, I was both naïve and stupid to think that there’s truly an unadulterated desire to clean up sport.

By that, I don’t mean going........

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