At the time, few people would even have noticed Marcell Jacobs’ two previous European Championships appearances. In 2016, he finished 11th in the long jump; two years later he failed…
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Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs has furiously denied doping allegations and claimed his gold medal was won with “blood, sweat, tears and injuries.” Jacobs, 27, shocked the world in Tokyo last…
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Thirty years ago today, Ben Johnson crouched on his starting blocks before the 100m Olympic final in Seoul, waiting. A gun went off. And he went supernova. Even now there is a…
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In 1988 Linford Christie failed his first drugs test at the Seoul Olympics. That same year, my dad, Arthur White, won the first of four world titles in a powerlifting career that almost cost…