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Thank god "the year of the fairytale" has almost ended.
Thank god "the year of the fairytale" has almost ended.
The Olympic Movement has to demand that Russia pay restitution, both financial and sporting, for its state-sponsored doping sins.
"GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY". If there's one ubiquitous message, cutting through all professional sports, and the wall-to-wall media coverage of them - Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival is the exemplar - it's that betting on sport is integral to the spectacle. Provided your wagering is practised with sufficient restraint and responsibility, of course.Â
Instead of a permanent criminalisation of the sport, the balanced stance might be to shut it down for two years from July 2017, then prohibit wagering for five years after its controlled reintroduction.
In the words of Alfred Hitchcock, there is no terror in a bang - only in the anticipation of it. That would have been the AOC's dilemma regarding Nick Kyrgios.
For sport to flourish, there is a required buy-in; a trust between sport and those who must be actively invested in it in order for sport to be something more than a monstrous triviality.
Demanding equality for prizemoney no matter what is as myopic as saying that, at a minimum, one woman should sit as a director on the board of every footy club.
Whether Maria Sharapova can reduce her ban, by proving a lack of "intention", is speculative; but this is certainly not a case where Sharapova can argue she isn't significantly at fault.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision concerning 34 members of Essendon's "Class of 2012" is anything but temperate. The stench will linger for years.
From no mas to Lance Armstrong's motivation, sport has plenty of mysteries.
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