sidelined

Loudly whispered suspicions have been confirmed that Olympian Marion Jones used performance enhancing substances in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics.
Jones has said that “tapped around the truth for too long”. Tapped around the truth? Ms Jones, you have stomped on the truth then run it over with a steam roller before burying [...]

to the Joey grand scandale.
No more Wallabies training sessions. I died a little everytime I saw Him at one of those on TV.

So we find out today that Andrew Johns was not only a recreational drug user for a decade, but the members of his team also knew.
For probably 10 years on and off I have taken it. It was usually during the off season but there were times during the season I have played Russian roulette [...]

Well at least it wasn’t a rent boy in a public toilet.
Johns caught with ecstasy.
The former rugby league star Andrew Johns has admitted that he was arrested for possession of an ecstasy tablet in London, but has blamed an “unknown person” for pushing it in his pocket at a notorious inner-city bar.
Johns has nonetheless described [...]

As a cycling tragic I took great interest in this piece written by Jason Akermanis on the subject of doping in the AFL, and not just any doping, but the kind that professional cyclists love, blood boosting via EPO or transfusion.
As a top-level professional athlete, you see certain things that leave you bemused. Some people [...]

By now any casual sporting fan will have heard of the doping problem in cycling, so I’ll just link to this article by Chicago Tribune columnist Philip Hersh for a brief summation.
Yep, it’s big, but other sporting fans need to realise that cycling is the only sport airing it’s dirty laundry in this way. [...]

Wassup with that? Smoke? Fire? A trigger for early retirement? A consequence of a night out drinking beer? Or pawn in a political fight involving doping agencies and sporting Orgs, some overzealous and others not zealous enough?
Either way, it’s been interesting to observe all Australian, political, media and sporting classes circle the wagons in [...]

No, it is not another revelation from the Blonde Sheik of Tweak’s love life. But Warney is copping it from Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency over Warney’s 2003 drugs ban.

“Cricketer Shane Warne said his mother had given him a diuretic so that he would look slimmer on television, without mentioning [...]