“I apologise if you’ve heard this before,” he says, repeating a line from his campaign trail, “but we have got to have a sport in which parents can bring their children, and those children can go all the way to the top without having to lie, without having to cheat, without having to take stuff which might damage their long-term health, without having to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders. If we can’t do that as a governing body we will have failed.”