Eilish McColgan on rival's failed drug test & "disgusting" online hate
Speaking in her new role as an ambassador for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, McColgan said: 'I try not to think about it too much because I feel like if I stand on the start line and that's all I'm thinking about then it's a very negative place to be.
'But it is really disappointing. I think a lot of people now look at that and suspect that doping's rife within the sport.
'When the top, top person is doing it, it is really disappointing but I think the agents and coaches need to be a little bit more responsible for that as well. I mean this isn't just Ruth doing this on her own.
'There's a deeper team involved here that are essentially….. I'm not going to say using an athlete but do you know what I mean? Whether there's coaches, doctors, agents, particularly, I think they need to be held responsible in some way.
'The ban is on the athlete but there needs to be something on the coaches and the people that are administrating this to try and cut it down.
'They're really having a big crackdown on Kenya at the moment which is amazing to see. Kenya Athletics, to be fair to them, have invested a lot of money in catching people and it is obviously clearly working which is great.'
McColgan also revealed she had been the victim of racist abuse online after announcing her engagement to partner, Michael Rimmer.
The 10,000m Commonwealth Games champion has previously been outspoken about receiving hateful comments about her appearance but said the comments about being a mixed-race couple were 'disgusting'.
And she hoped more would be done by social media firms and other watchdogs to try to clam down on it.
She added: 'The abuse I get is usually about body image but I recently posted about my engagement to my partner.
'And the racist abuse that we received, obviously being a mixed-race couple, was honestly disgusting. I've never read anything like it in my life.
'That was probably pretty eye-opening for me because it was a different type of abuse that was coming towards me that I'd never experienced before.
'And it's maybe how my parents feel when they read stuff about me. It was me reading that about someone I love, which was difficult to do. So it probably gave me a little bit of a greater appreciation of what my family probably have to go through when they read stuff about me online.
'But sadly, that's just the downside of social media and the online world that we're in. All we can do is keep standing up for ourselves, voicing our disgust at it, outing people who are maybe not afraid to share their names and stuff online, but also ask for verification on social media.
'All we can do is continue to call it out, try and educate the next generation on not being an arsehole pretty much.'
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