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When sport and politics collide
When the Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, asked Australia’s cricket team not to come to Zimbabwe, questions arose about how Australian...
Using technology for sporting achievement
Due to the extraordinary precision of electronic timing mechanisms, it is now possible to measure the performance of athletes within hundredths (...
Should sporting heroes be good people?
I recently tuned into a conversation about Shane Warne’s triumphant retirement from test cricket. All seemed to be going well as people waxed...
The greatest vice of all
Like nearly everyone else, I have been at a loss to explain Kevin Gosper's confessed lapse of judgement in allowing his daughter to be the first...
Ethics in the Olympic movement
When Hercules was given the task of cleaning the Augean stables, as one of his seven labours, it could hardly have been more of a challenge than...
SOCOG's gold medal backflip
A firestorm of public anger has engulfed the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). Yet those at the centre of the conflagration...
Pregnancy in sport
In the debate about whether pregnant women should be prevented from playing sport, it is the unborn children, the pregnant athletes and the sporting...
The International Olympic Committee Ethics Commission
For many people, it used to be that the Olympic Games were less a global sporting event than an opportunity for the people of the world to come...
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