Athlete treated badly by sport officials

The cruel and questionable farce surrounding the initial provisional suspension of our middle-distance runner Peter Bol and his subsequent seven months in purgatory for a crime he did not commit surely shatters confidence in Australian officialdom’s anti-doping processes.

Athletics Australia and Sport Integrity Australia fiddled around behind closed doors while Bol was left to wear the mantle of an alleged drug cheat until last Tuesday, when the federal government’s anti-doping body…