Ennis-Hill warns doping scandal would worsen

The 29-yearold spoke passionately about feeling betrayed by the very people she should have been able to trust to protect her as a clean athlete after it was revealed corruption was ‘embedded’ within the sport’s governing body, the IAAF. 

The Olympic Champion also put the onus on current IAAF president Seb Coe to prove he was the right man to bring about change at the top of the stricken sport.  Coe was vice-president to Lamine Diack, who enabled a bribery and blackmail ring to extort money from an athlete to cover up a positive drugs test, an act the heptathlete worries could be just the tip of the iceberg. 

‘Most British athletes would say they had some feeling Russian athletes may not have been doing what they should have,’ Ennis-Hill told Sportsmail, 'but I certainly didn’t think anything of that level of corruption was happening within the IAAF.'

It’s really upsetting and completely shocking to read what’s been going on and obviously as an athlete that’s competing now you put your trust in your international federation to make sure they’re doing everything properly and protecting athletes and I don’t want to be training and competing thinking “I wonder if they’ve been doing their job properly?” you expect it all to be taken care of.