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
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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
Why the most macabre doping scheme in Olympic history went unpunished
Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Paris 2024
Why no athletes should be banned from the Paris Olympics
There is an important distinction which must be drawn between athletes and where they come from.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Olympics
The Enhanced Games will be many things, but they won’t be sport
The spruikers of the “Doping Olympics” have so far failed to make the case for their venture, while the many arguments against it are so obvious as to be absurd.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
NRL 2024
Why NRL players could struggle to get visas to Vegas
Some of the biggest stars slated for the NRL’s pioneering double-header in Sin City have had their troubles with the law. Will it scupper their chances of getting past US Immigration?
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
NRL 2024
Stateless Volkman deserved better, starting with the man he should be able to rely on most
The Ronald Volkman imbroglio asks tough questions of the Dragons, the Warriors and, most of all, his manager.
- by Darren Kane