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The Lance Armstrong Conundrum
t was recently demonstrated by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs during the seven years when he won...
The Lance Bomb has blown, but is doping really cheating?
Should Lance Armstrong lose his seven Tour de France titles for doping, as is being proposed by the US Anti-doping Agency (USADA)? It’s an...
Olympics 2012: the alternative medals table
We all know who's in the lead on the medal tables - but what would happen if you looked at them by population size, or GDP - or even compared to...
FIFA Head Investigator Garcia May Probe World Cups, Sepp Blatter
The new investigators at soccer ruling body FIFA said they may start probes into President Sepp Blatter and the World Cups awarded to Russia and...
Rip up new Olympic sex test rules
Female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels face new sex testing rules that are flawed and unjust.
Sleeping your way to Success: Olympian Ethics
The London Olympic Games of 2012 could be renamed the Return of the Drug Cheats. After serving bans of various lengths for taking illegal,...
Mount Everest: the ethical dilemma facing climbers
Mountaineer Leanna Shuttleworth passed the bodies of dead and dying people on her ascent to the summit. Should climbers stop to help casualties?
The Mankad: Ashwin-Thirimanne, ethics and the law in the gentleman’s game
Cricket was almost changed forever this afternoon in the ODI match between India and Sri Lanka and not for the better either. Sri Lanka were cruising...
Single Player for a Team's Loss?
It is every player's nightmare to make the mistake that ultimately costs their team the game. That nightmare became a reality for Baltimore Ravens...
Sport asleep over gambling threat
What is the greater threat to the integrity of sport - performance-enhancing drugs or manipulation of match results? Just a simple question. Very...
Rules are rules, and that's no joke, sport
When it comes to ethics in sport, Australians have revealed a big truth about themselves this week: they have no sense of humour. Make a comparison....
Parity? This system is simply a reward for mediocrity
NRL chief executive David Gallop defends his dysfunctional salary cap laws by saying they are meant to ensure that fans can go to any game with the...
Salary caps as useful as skull caps
David Gallop and his advisers have been too heavy-handed in dealing with an admittedly imperfect Storm. Everybody comes from somewhere. Those who...
In sport, normal business rules shouldn't apply
Should football be exempt from competition legislation? This is an old question, raised again by John Durie in his Martin Collins column ("Caps...
The wandering eye of the Tiger
The Sex-Tape Generation has now seeped into sports in a way that is unprecedented, riveting and more than a little bit gross. Gross in terms of...
Give sport a chance: why we mustn't underestimate the power of physical activity to teach and inspire
There has been no shortage of people talking about the Independent Sport Report and its impact on major sports. What seems to have been missed by...
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