Athletics should be booted out of the Olympics, it’s become a circus

Athletics should be booted out of the Olympics, it’s become a circus
Sebastian Coe has had to answer some hard questions over the past few weeks. Picture: Getty

So here we are yet again, one more sport taken away, asking when is enough enough?

Dick Pound was one of the good guys. Maybe the only good guy. Given the totality of his career’s work, we’d chalked his November comments that Russia could get its house in order by summer down to a moment’s weakness. So what to make of him now? 

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