Johnson defends clean 'victims'

The corruption scandal that has rocked athletics is worse than the one that has plunged soccer body FIFA into crisis because it punished clean athletes, four-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson said on Tuesday.

"With athletics, if you think about the victims, it is absolutely worse," the 400 meters world record holder told BBC radio.

"The victims here are those (clean) athletes. They never had the opportunity to stand on the podium and they should have," said the American sprinter.