British athletics body calls for world records to be reset for clean 'new era'

"Clean athletes and sports fans the world over have been let down. Trust in the sport is at its lowest point for decades."

British athletics body calls for world records to be reset for clean 'new era'

UK Athletics wants all world records to be reset due to the sport’s doping crisis and has announced it will seek to bring in a lifetime ban for any athlete guilty of a serious drugs violation.

The governing body for British athletics has published ’A Manifesto for Clean Athletics’, which calls for hard-hitting measures to be brought in to clean up the sport.

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