You'll be shocked by how different this photo from the 2012 Olympics is when you remove the drug cheats

What a difference!

You'll be shocked by how different this photo from the 2012 Olympics is when you remove the drug cheats

As the drip-feed of failed drugs tests continues in the years after Olympics past, it’s hard to visualise how the races would look without any suspicion of cheating, writes Stephen Barry.

Only yesterday the news emerged that four more Russian athletes had been found guilty of doping at the 2012 Games, taking the total sanctioned from that country alone to 34.

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