Athletics doping scandal: Just how competent is Seb Coe?

FROM cycling to swimming, soccer to boxing and horse racing — there hardly seems to be an international sport that has not become embroiled in one form of scandal or another in recent years.

The latest involves Russian athletes and is on an unprecedented scale. Russia faces being banned from the Olympics in Rio next year after investigators found that it effectively sabotaged the 2012 London Games by running a state-sponsored doping programme.

According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, the head of a Moscow laboratory destroyed thousands of blood and urine samples and the Russian security services bugged laboratories and disrupted anti-doping work by posing as engineers at the Sochi Winter Olympics.