Tag: Cecil Russell
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Swim Ontario bans club ignoring ban on coach Cecil Russell
Read The Star Cecil Russell was banned for life — twice — from coaching swimmers because of his involvement in illegal steroid and ecstasy rings. During a 1997 murder trial he admitted to helping burn the body of a dead drug associate. But none of it stopped him from coaching his own talented children —…
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Sinead Russell races from father’s long shadow to London Olympics
When Canadian swimmer Sinead Russell yesterday punched her ticked to the 2012 London Olympics, questions about her swim coach father’s shady past were inevitable, Cecil Russell twice banned from coaching for life for his involvement in illegal steroid and ecstasy rings, and having admitted helping burn and dispose a murder victim. It’s a mess the…