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Sports authorities should ban trans women from competing against cis women. Fundamental fairness demands it. Yet sports authorities worldwide have been allowing trans women to do just that. Fairness be damned. Trans women banned Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been the face of efforts to enforce this ban. And it has cost her a lot. Millions… Read more.
Swimming This was the last day of competition. Michael Phelps insists it was his last too. Which constrains me to reprise what I wrote in this regard on the last day of competition at London 2012: He insists that he will now rest on his laurels, and who can blame him. But I fully expect… Read more.
Swimming As much as I hate to, I feel obliged to begin the last of my Swimming commentaries on a sour note: I led the chorus of those questioning the remarkable improvement that enabled 16-year-old Chinese Ye Shiwen to blow away the field in the women’s 400m individual medley on Day 1. In the interest… Read more.
Jones admits to using steroids Last week, Marion Jones admitted to being a serial abuser of steroids. I was crestfallen. After all, Jones always denied using steroids – complete with moral indignation. I’m a cynical man, but I bought her denials hook, line, and sinker. She was always so graceful on and off the track. How could she have… Read more.
