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.
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.
Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.
There is an important distinction which must be drawn between athletes and where they come from.
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.
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?
The Ronald Volkman imbroglio asks tough questions of the Dragons,the Warriors and,most of all,his manager.
Few athletes upend and distort how a sport is played. Tiger Woods more than traversed that threshold. In time,we’ll realise David Warner also passed that test.
Cricket Australia’s approach to removing banners shouldn’t be blindly accepted or left unscrutinised.
You can’t have nursing homes full of banged-up ex-athletes suffering from repeated brain traumas,but you also can’t remove the contact element from rugby because then it isn’t rugby.
Fresh brains and new thinking from entirely outside the box loom as the best steps forward for the code in Australia.