Athletes face as many as 640 organisational demands at a big competition – and they can all take their toll.
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The countries who regularly top the medal table spend millions on training and developing athletes, money that poorer countries simply can’t afford to spend on their sporting stars.
With weeks to go before the Olympics, it’s unlikely Kenya will be sanctioned over fresh doping claims. No matter what happens, a shadow will be cast over the integrity of the country’s athletes.
The ban on Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics feels like a victory, but it masks an insular system which is spread too thin.
Football, cricket, athletics, rugby – whatever the sport, the tears are never far away, for both the stars and the spectators.
Until recently, women with higher-than-expected testosterone levels were declared ineligible to take part in track and field athletics.
The history of the fight against drug taking in sport shows us why we’re in such a mess right now.
There’s been plenty of commentary about Novak Djokovic’s recent remarks on women’s bodies and the pay gap in sport. He’s right that men and women are different – but female athletes are working a lot harder.
What does it take to keep a bicycle upright and moving, without crashing?
The IOC’s changes to transgender policy is useful, but the situation is still complicated.
Why Adidas pulled its sponsorship of the IAAF, the governing body of world athletics.
Fresh details about the findings of the World Anti Doping Authority raise questions about athletics chiefs.
How athletics can and must deal with the doping scandal that threatens the sport’s legitimacy.
A massive doping problem in the Lance Armstrong era has inspired some useful reform ideas, but governance issues must be solved as well.
A damning report exposes doping and corruption at every level. And the Russians aren’t likely to take the fall for everyone.
Proposed changes to anti-doping are likely to increase WADA’s powers, but in the search to detect doping athletes, the innocent are likely to be punished along with the guilty.
Where can sport go when performance-related doping always seems one step ahead? The WADA report should open the door to a more rational future.
Paralympic athletes are representing in Doha, while back home the welfare state is being attacked.
Without addresses inequalities in sport and diversifying funding, there will always be a problem in getting ordinary people interested in sport.
The poor air quality at major sporting events can have a damaging affect on athletes’ performance and health.
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