A TERRIBLE reflection on the world of sport. That’s what construction union Ucatt general secretary Steve Murphy called the International Association of Athletics Federations decision to hold the 2019 Championships in Qatar.

The same can be said about Fifa deciding to hand Qatar the 2022 World Cup — though if you’re extremely generous you could claim that the extreme exploitation of migrant workers wasn’t quite as clear in 2010.

Since then Fifa have had many chances to strip Qatar of the tournament and faced countless calls to do so. The world athletics body should have known better than to follow Fifa’s lead.