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record this year and won the 10,000metres gold here.

It is to make the point the reason these cases are so damaging to athletics is because scepticism remains long after the circus has left town. Without trust, athletics has nothing.

If seeing is not believing, you might as well forget it. This is the cross the sport bears. It needs a total buy-in for it to work

– and it has not had that for a long time.