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Toppling Coates is risky business for the Australian Olympic movement
The fact Danielle Roche has resolved to challenge for the presidency of the AOC ensures its annual general meeting, starting six weeks from now, will be toxic.
The fact Danielle Roche has resolved to challenge for the presidency of the AOC ensures its annual general meeting, starting six weeks from now, will be toxic.
It's the height of naivety to think the Wanderers and the FFA have now solved the problem. What the FFA should've done is apply the blowtorch to this "supporters group" that's got much more in common with a disorganised crime gang on a rampage, in terms of violence, intimidation and disrespect for societal norms.
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts; it can help to make them more bearable.
There's a lot to dislike about Bernie Ecclestone the man. But, as a sports administrator, he might just be the best there has ever been.
Pardon me for just one second, so I can get this all straight in my head. Nick Kyrgios is a rusted-on Democrat. Even with the benefit of 20/20 binoculars that, my friends, was harder to pick than a broken nose. Or, maybe The Donald appointing his son-in-law as a senior White House advisor was simply the straw that broke the camel's proverbial for Nick. Who could know.
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.
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.
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