Thursday, 28 March 2013

Darker side to glamour of global sport (Reuters)

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong awaits the start of the 2010 Cape Argus Cycle Tour in Cape Town in this March 14, 2010 file photo. A spate of troubling stories in the first quarter of 2013 show an altogether darker and more disturbing side to the glamorous, multi-billion-dollar global sport industry. In January, American cyclist Armstrong admitted in a television interview that he had doped before each of his record seven Tour de France victories. His confession after years of denial followed the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) decision to strip him of the title and accuse him of being at the centre of the

By John Mehaffey LONDON (Reuters) - Unprecedented levels of skill, intensity and endurance have transformed global sport into spectacular mass entertainment and handsomely rewarded its leading exponents. Now that the euphoria of last year's acclaimed London Olympics has dissipated, however, a spate of troubling stories in the first quarter of 2013 show an altogether darker and more disturbing side to a glamorous, multi-billion-dollar industry. ...




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