Why true great Sonia O'Sullivan deserves to get her dues

You probably heard about the Chinese women last week — the runners who beat Sonia O’Sullivan out of gold medals in the World Championships held back in 1993, the ones who supposedly subsisted on turtle blood to set astonishing records in distance running.

The cheats, as we can now call them.

If you have any ambivalence about doping and performance-enhancing drugs, or if you feel some variation of‘ “aren’t they all at it, sure leave them off”, then this is the story to show you what is at stake.