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Topical Sports News

On the Jamaican clenbuterol positives: A procedural failure and credibility black hole

Ross Tucker · 03 Apr 2017 ·

An explosive new investigative report has revealed that numerous athletes have tested positive when their samples from Beijing 2008 were retested. They include Jamaican male sprinters, so dominant in those Games. The IOC and WADA however did not act, suggesting the cases are all contamination, not worthy of pursuing. How viable is this, and what does it mean for already bottomed-out anti-doping credibility?

Should doping be legalised? The Olympic drug debate

Ross Tucker · 05 Aug 2016 ·

Should we legalise doping? Make it open to all, and avoid the controversy and scandal. A regular issue comes around for the Olympics. In this article, I address that question in a Q&A format.

Denial plus shock, divided by the tip of the iceberg. A recipe for mistrust

Ross Tucker · 10 Nov 2015 ·

The WADA report into the IAAF’s alleged doping cover-ups came out yesterday, and Twitter was rocking.  So many journalists and commenters wrote excellent summaries and opinion pieces (there’s a list of some of them at the end of this post), but I thought I’d share with you two brief articles I wrote on the issue. […]

2014 Wrap Part 1: Week by week musings

Ross Tucker · 29 Dec 2014 ·

A look back at 2014, using my weekly “Times” newspaper column to cover some of the biggest sporting stories and their management and scientific implications.

London 2012: Men’s marathon analysis

Ross Tucker · 12 Aug 2012 ·

Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda is the Olympic Marathon champion. We covered the race as it happened, with splits and commentary

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