One of Bolt’s 4 x 100m team mates has tested positive for a banned substance – costing Bolt one of his gold medals.
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Understanding the populism of the Putin government is more urgent than ever as Russia plays a major geopolitical role in the Middle-Eastern balance.
From Sharapova to the Brownlee brothers, 2016 has given us one step forward to one step back.
The Team Sky boss is due to give evidence to MP’s at parliament. Here’s what they should ask him.
What do the concepts like ‘cheating’ and ‘performance enhancing’ mean to young African footballers?
Paralympians are being hailed as inspirational. This doesn’t please everyone.
Extensive drug use was reported at the 1952 Helsinki Games, but it was the death of two athletes that finally galvanized international sporting authorities into taking action against doping.
Kenya’s international success in track and field hides management inefficiencies and corruption that have frustrated athletes and fed a pipeline of runners willing to ditch the national flag
In sports, what’s considered fair play has changed throughout history. At one point, even looking ‘too poor’ was grounds for exclusion.
Rarely do we see such unscripted individual honesty on difficult topics such as doping, right in the middle of arguably the biggest international sporting stage.
Doping simply gives athletes an advantage that can be compared to other forms of training regimes. So why the moral outrage?
The IOC will allow Russian athletes to compete in Rio 2016 if they’ve been cleared by their respective international sporting federation of doping. Should other countries pull out of the games?
As technology becomes fully integrated into our everyday lives, we may see athletes as the last vestiges of our humanity.
The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with…
Only a better understanding of what drives doping can improve enforcement. To do so, we must break with the perception of doping as an individual or moral problem.
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.
The International Olympic Committee will allow Russians wanting to compete in the Rio 2016 Olympics the chance to do so if they can prove they’re clean to their sports federation.
The entire Russian Olympic team could be banned from competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. How can the International Olympic Committee ban an entire country?
Where Russia broke the cardinal rule of doping – don’t get caught – the anti-doping regime has broken a cardinal rule of nature: don’t poke the Russian Bear.
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.
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW-Canberra, UNSW
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, La Trobe University
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Honorary Associate, Faculty of Business, School of Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Scholar, School of Business, CBR, UNSW
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University
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Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Anti-Doping, Leeds Beckett University