• Tallent won Olympic silver in London behind Russia’s Sergey Kirdyapkin
• ‘The body that should be protecting clean athletes was looking after cheats’The Australian race walker Jared Tallent,an Olympic silver-medallist behind a drugs cheat, has reiterated his demand that the IAAF award him the gold medal in the wake of the report into systemic doping in Russian athletics.
A World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent commission reported allegations of widespread corruption and collusion by Russian officials, and including state security services,to cover up results of drug tests, kill samples and intimidate laboratory staff.
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Source: theguardian.com