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Seb Coe is a fine man… but his roasting over the Russian athletics scandal is justified

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

So Smiley was right all along: the bloody Russians were the baddest of the bad. The Pound report on the epic scale of their state-sponsored doping and cheating in athletics was indeed seismic. It can’t have come as that much of a surprise, though. In a remarkable investigation in July 2013, Martha Kelner and Nick Harris of the Mail on Sunday blew the lid on the whole cesspool of Russian corruption.

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