Today, the Mail on Sunday pulls back the curtain on a top-secret London 2012 research project run by UK Sport.

This is a thread on how, over the past year, we slowly pieced together the facts of this story and how the governing body’s risk taking unfolded in Olympic year.

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— Edmund Willison (@honestsport_ew) July 12, 2020