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In-depth interviews with the stars, coaches and power brokers in the world of sport. Rob Bonnet goes behind the glamour to examine the risks and rewards of a cut-throat competitive

In-depth interviews with the stars, coaches and power brokers in the world of sport. Rob Bonnet goes behind the glamour to examine the risks and rewards of a cut-throat competitive business.

Extra Time: David Hemery

27/07/2016 GMT

David Hemery

BBC World News - Extra Time, David Hemery

Rob Bonnet talks to David Hemery, Olympic Champion and former President of UK Athletics.

As  former President of UK Athletics, David Hemery considered the role the "conscience of the sport". What does he make of the IOC's failure to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics?

Extratime's Rob Bonnet talks to David Hemery, former British Olympic gold medallist who won the 400 metres hurdles in the 1968 Mexico Games with a new world record, and yet had to ask a trackside reporter whether he'd actually come first. But the international ban on Russia's track and field athletes which prevents them from going to the Rio Olympics and the IOC's failure to extend that to the rest of the Russian team will have to be where we start. After all, in a distinguished career in sports governance, David Hemery spent four years as President of UK Athletics, a role he identified as being the "conscience of the sport".

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