LONDON, (Reuters) – Jessica Ennis-Hill will have doubts about Russian athletes even if they are cleared to compete at the 2016 Rio Games, the Olympic and world heptathlon champion said yesterday.
Russia were banned from the sport in November following the first part of a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report that found a “deeply rooted culture of cheating” in track and field in the country.The nation’s athletes will only be allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics if the ban imposed by the governing IAAF is lifted in time for the Aug. 5-21 Games.
“I hope if it does get to that stage that there are Russian athletes competing at the Olympics, that really drastic measures have been put in place to make sure nothing like this happens again,” Briton Ennis-Hill told the BBC.
