Opinion
Darts
The Olympics must be compelling, electrifying and showcase unparalleled skill. One sport is all of these
If shooting is an Olympic sport, and if breaking was, darts should at least be considered. Yet there’s more chance of Raygun becoming a two-time Olympian.
- by Darren Kane
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Opinion
Wests Tigers
In NRL clown town, can a Tiger turn into a Magpie? It’s not black and white...
Wests Tigers are a three-ring circus, but there are reasons why the Magpies can’t just swoop in.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Drugs in sport
Is tennis cooked? No, but the temperature is being turned up
Nick Kyrgios says his sport is “cooked” after two top players tested positive to banned substances and were let off with a slap on the wrist. It’s a little more nuanced than that.
- by Darren Kane
Analysis
Women in sport
IOC needs to take a binary position on transgender participation in women’s sport
The current framework is weak, vague and contributed to the invective that surrounded Imane Khelif at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Sebastian Coe presents as a welcome agent of change.
- by Darren Kane
Why an NRL player draft could benefit lawyers more than the league
Any attempt by the governing body to introduce an internal draft without the players’ backing would appear to be a non-starter, if previous cases are any guide.
- by Darren Kane
Why Jannik may be judged more sinner than saint
The Italian star was cleared of doping, saying he was unwittingly contaminated while being massaged. But that won’t wash with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Online gambling
Blow up the pokies, but if gambling ads are banned, what’s next?
There’s a special flavour of nonsense to the idea that the banning of sports-betting advertising might somehow make gambling disappear.
- by Darren Kane
Sport’s push for board equality is laudable, but athletes must come first
If governing bodies aren’t managed for the athletes, and with their best interests at the epicentre, then frankly the organisations should be detonated.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Drugs in sport
Kyrgios has (sort of) got it right about Sinner’s doping offence
Nick Kyrgios is right about Jannik Sinner escaping a ban, but not because the Italian is a drug cheat.
- by Darren Kane
Boxing has given itself an uppercut that could knock it out of the Olympics
The newly formed World Boxing must develop fit-for-purpose rules regarding DSD athletes by 2025, or the sweet science will be struck off the Olympic roster.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Paris 2024
The outrageous – and sad – double standards of the Olympics
The IOC has no compunction in demanding US authorities cease criminal investigations that might reveal horrendous inadequacies in WADA’s efforts to combat doping. But it has no rules to measure the fitness and propriety of people that nations want to send to the Games.
- by Darren Kane
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