Advancements in medical technologies have brought new challenges to sports regulators, especially the International Federations. One of the newest battlefields is transgender athletes. Back in February, now-former marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe (GBR) sounded the alarm quite clearly, telling the BBC: Right now, transgender women are not a threat to female sport Continue reading →

Nike will look into runner Mary Cain's allegations of abuse while she was part of Alberto Salazar's training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Continue reading →

Analysis: most commonly associated with cheating athletes, steroids occur naturally in our bodies and play an important role in modern medicine By Dipali Ahuja, University of Limerick; Laurie Ryan, University of Limerick and Emer Browne, TCD "And the winner is!" - or is it? The prevalence of doping at major sporting events such as the Olympics has called into question the rightful winner of many competitions. In the 2012 European Athletic Championships women's 1500 metres final, the first, second, third and fourth placed athletes subsequently faced bans for testing positive for using performance enhancing substances. Continue reading →

For a society striving for equal opportunity and freedom to act as one pleases, common values have fallen into the pit of unequivocal standards. The general characteristics of male and female behavior are no longer held on the same platform and terms like hyper-masculinity are blacklisted while feminism seems to be on an exponential growth curve. However, masculinity and femininity are two sides of the same coin. Continue reading →

November 10 2019, 12:01am,The Sunday Times David Walsh Shane Sutton, the former head coach at Team Sky and one-time performance director at British Cycling, could not have been much amused by the discussion that took place at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing in Manchester two days ago. According to Mary ORourke, the QC representing defendant Dr Richard Freeman in a fit-to-practise case, the reason her client ordered 30 sachets of Testogel (testosterone) in 2011 was to treat Suttons erectile dysfunction. Forget for a moment that testosterone is not something any reputable physician would prescribe for erectile dysfunction and consider this conversation from Suttons point of view Continue reading →