There’s a cloud hovering over Rio de Janeiro and it has nothing to do with the weather.
Performance enhancing drugs and the maelstrom that comes with them is very much a part of every elite competition but the build up to this year’s Olympic Games is like nothing we’ve seen before.
While no country or sport is completely exempt, the conversation of late has revolved around a Russian grand plan for victory and evidence of the state-sponsored cover-ups that helped make it happen.
