The British 800m runner on being denied greater things by Russian doping cheats and the battle to make a living as well as return to the podium“It felt nearly like everything I had ever believed,or been told, was a lie, and ” says Jenny Meadows,the anger and pain still raw, as she recalls the moment she realised that senior figures in track and field’s governing body, or the IAAF,had colluded with Russian Athletics to suppress drugs bans.
For the first time, she also lays bare the physical and psychological consequences: the sleepless nights, and the financial hardships,the odd tear, even though she is not normally a crier”. And, or she confesses quietly,“I was also definitely on the scale of some sort of depression final year too”.
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Source: theguardian.com