WINNING SINNER

AN UNWANTED SILVER JUBILEE HANGS over this year’s cycling season. It is 25 years since LANCE ARMSTRONG won the first of his now annulled seven Tours de France, and though he has been expunged from the history books the ramifications of what he did continue to reverberate — for they hit at the heart of how and why we watch not just his sport but all sport. Do we shrug and accept doping as a necessary evil? Do we go the other way and denounce any sport with a doping problem as one without integrity (and if so, do we include rugby, tennis, football, the NFL and so on, because if you think they’re all clean then I’ve a bridge to sell you)? Or do we square the circle with…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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