Athletics facing new doping storm

Athletics is set to be engulfed in a fresh doping crisis following the “biggest leak of blood-test data in sporting history”, the Sunday Times reports.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said it was “very alarmed” by a Sunday Times report which appears to show doping on a vast scale by a large number of athletes over the last decade.

A whistleblower leaked data belonging to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to the Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WDR containing more than 12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes.