Although by no means the first case of doping in sport, the 1988 Ben Johnson case destroyed any remaining notion of the purity that some people still felt elite sport possessed. 25 years on and cases such as the 1990s Festina scandal, the Armstrong USADA inquiry and most recently the widely criticised Fuentes investigation, have done nothing to restore the general public’s confidence in sport and athletes alike. This means that in the eye’s of many, top athletes are guilty until proved innoc...
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