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
Latest
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
Opinion
Drugs in sport
Olympic careers are usually short. Athletes deserve to know they are clean
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s recent decision-making turns on its head the concept of strict liability.
- by Darren Kane
Analysis
Paris 2024
A convicted child rapist will compete at the Paris Olympics. Where is the outrage?
The Dutch Olympic Committee has selected a beach volleyball player who served prison time after pleading guilty to rape charges. The IOC will not overrule his participation.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Drugs in sport
Chinese doping scandal has muddied the waters for clean athletes in Paris
Athletes lining up at next month’s Olympics, with no known doping skeletons in the closet, face a harsh reality of the unknown unknowns.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
NRL 2024
The problem with Panthers’ move to sack Taylan May
The NRL’s “no-fault stand-down” rule is imperfect but necessary. But Penrith’s internal proceedings against their winger raise several questions.
- by Darren Kane
Analysis
NRL 2024
No-fault stand-down policy isn’t perfect, but NRL has little alternative
You can argue the stand-down rules are neither an effective deterrent nor a fair punishment – but that’s not the point of them.
- by Darren Kane
Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion
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.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Doping
The wait of history: How and why East German medals should be reallocated
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.
- by Darren Kane
Analysis
Doping
The running debate on doping that’s lasted four decades
It’s obscene that we know everything about the East German doping machine, yet we’re still talking about how to recognise that fact and offer redress all these years later.
- by Darren Kane
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