And so to the vexed question of Caster Semenya who, with each crass pronouncement by Athletics South Africa chief Leonard Chuene, is beginning to look more and more like a political pawn rather than a young woman who may need counselling, if not other sorts of therapy. Everyone knows that there are effeminate men and […]
The recent story, in the Orange County Register (California), about official concealment of US doping positives in Los Angeles, prior to the Olympic Games there in 1984 is a reminder, among other things that you cannot divorce sport from the society which plays it. The late entry of the Soviet Union to the Olympic movement […]