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| Four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson |
Three senior IAAF officials were banned for life for alleged doping breaches.
And Russia is currently banned from all athletics competitions following accusations of widespread doping.
Asked how the scandal facing athletics compared to that of Fifa, Johnson told the BBC: "If you think about the victims, it is absolutely worse."
Fifa, the body that governs world football, is also in crisis following a series of damaging corruption claims.
Its president, Sepp Blatter, has been banned for eight years for breaching ethics rules.
In an interview with Mishal Husain, Johnson said that those athletes cheated out of medals by dopers "never had the opportunity to stand on the podium - and they should have".
However, he stopped short of backing an Olympic ban for Russian athletes later this year.
"Do you ban an entire country that ostensibly could include clean athletes, from participating in Rio?" asked the American, who still holds the world and Olympic records for the 400m.
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