Dafne Schippers: 'I hate when people see my skin and say I'm a drugs cheat, acne doesn't mean I dope'... as Dutch sprinter labels her frosty relationship with Elaine Thompson as 'very bad'

For Dafne Schippers, a say of the World Championships incites torment and joy.

To begin with to the joy. Two years prior in Beijing, Schippers developed as the youthful sensation. Inside three months of turning into a full-time sprinter — having already contended in the heptathlon — she staggered games by asserting gold in the 200metres with a fly obeyed time of 21.63 seconds.

Just Florence Griffith Joyner, who set the world record of 21.34sec of every 1988, and Marion Jones, who ran 21.62sec of every 1998, have run quicker than Schippers.

Those circumstances are covered in question, as Joyner's later profession was dominated by doubtful medication affirmations and Jones has confessed to doping. So ought to the IAAF prevail with regards to wiping all pre-2005 world records, Schippers will turn into the speediest female 200m sprinter.

However the quick celebration of a record-softening dash up Beijing soon offered approach to negativity. Games is a game stubborn by debasement, and question heightened because of Schippers' composition. The Dutch competitor, 25, has experienced skin inflammation all over and back, which is viewed as an indication of steroid mishandle.