VIDEO: Rob Heffernan awaits London medal call
Still, Rob Heffernan is more hopeful than ever that he will receive an Olympic bronze medal retrospectively, via the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The case taken by the IAAF, athletics’ governing body, sought to extend the selective sanctions imposed by the Russian Anti-Doping Association on Sergey Kirdyapkin, which would have allowed his gold medal from the 50km Walk at the 2012 Games to stand.
“I think that it will come through but I’m not focused on it at the moment. It would be great, obviously,” said Heffernan. “Everybody knows the situation with doping in Russia. It’s just a matter for the authorities to finalise it.
