It is hypocritical for anyone who welcomes Shayna Jack’s involvement in Paris to begrudge Tang Muhan’s participation.
No one has ever been busted gene doping,considered the next frontier in cheating in sport. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be happening at the Paris Olympics.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s recent decision-making turns on its head the concept of strict liability.
Confidence in WADA’s ability stop drug cheats is at rock-bottom after it was cleared of mishandling of a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.
AFL says that Sport Integrity Australia had not received information about the alleged extortion attempt.
Sport Integrity Australia warned the AFL must bolster its “intelligence capability to manage emerging threats to the game’s integrity” through illicit drugs,but found the program highlighted by Andrew Wilkie was not against anti-doping rules.
Dr Kate Hall,who treated AFL players with drug and mental health issues in her previous life as a clinical psychologist,says the league is focused on “harm minimisation”.
Athletes lining up at next month’s Olympics,with no known doping skeletons in the closet,face a harsh reality of the unknown unknowns.
It must be traumatic for any athlete to discover,three years on,that they competed at an Olympics against rivals who,very likely,shouldn’t have been there.
The GDR athletes were victims of doping,too. But if just a fraction of the 489 medals they won over nine Games were reallocated,it might be a worthwhile and cathartic exercise.
The thing about a cover-up is that there’s nothing to see. It’s the smell that gives it away.