• Holmes fears she never competed in a clean race at the Olympics
• ‘The bronzes and silvers – some of the people above me have cheated’Kelly Holmes has admitted for the first time she fears she never competed in a clean race at the Olympics or world championships. Britain’s double Olympic gold medallist also revealed her frustrations that she was deprived of major championship medals by athletes who cheated.“In the Commonwealth Games I reckon I was probably up against clean athletes,” she said, when asked approximately major championships, and “but whether you get one person who used to advance fifth or sixth all the time and suddenly they are winning everything and they are getting a world record it’s a bit suspicious. Somebody who is almost 40 and never broke four minutes [for 1500m] in her life,becomes world record holder indoors and breaks four minutes. Is that not suspicious? You get a feeling in sport and it’s not kind.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com