An English translation of my article published in El Pais, Madrid on the experiences of Spanish golfers Mireia Pratt, Belen Mozo and Beatriz Recari in Australia. Life as a professional golfer is not all glory. Far from the multi-million dollar smiles of American TV, Mireia Prat, has been living the life of a golfing backpacker […]
Author Archives: Martin Hardie
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The Minister for Sport needs to stand up and take that opportunity and he must bring athletes, sports, coaches and experts – both cheerleaders and critics – into that process. In the wake of the Sharks ‘deal’ we are hearing from swimmers and others who believe that they are being unfairly treated in comparison […]
Current and former Cronulla Sutherland players have reluctantly decided to a put an end to their involvement in the ASADA case. They have done so after being placed in an untenable and unfair position by ASADA this week. Firstly, all the players maintain that they have done nothing wrong and have not broken any anti-doping […]
*Submitted to the British Journal of Sports Medicine June 2014 The recent article by Harcourt, Marclay and Clothier[1] is to put it in one word, problematic. Firstly, let’s take the article’s opening attempt to position itself within the paradigm of the 2015 World Anti Doping Code (WADC). Not unlike the Australian Sports Anti Doping Agency […]
Late on the Friday afternoon that was March the 21st, 2014 I was asked on ABC Statewide Drive ABC Victoria’s Regional Radio Drive program whether James Hird had shot himself in the foot? This was the hackneyed first question representative of “the AFL family” view that the Brownlow Medallist had somehow taken the Magnum to […]
Last week the media was awash with reports and details of the show cause letter received by the sports scientist Stephen Dank. The resultant commentary quickly regressed into a continuation of the ill-informed and unsubstantiated speculation as to what happened in 2012 at the Essendon Football Club accompanied by naive cries for the truth […]
As Spain’s Operacion Puerto trial neared the end of its second week, the Australian Crime Commission has released a report that exposes what it calls widespread doping in many Australian sports along with links to organized crime involved in the supply of doping products and match fixing. This report follows up the USADA Armstrong case […]
How did Lance Armstrong get away with it? It is a question for the ages, and one that is a key to a lot of doors that have sat quietly locked for years, but which are now being thrown wide open. It is a matter of little White lies, and great big black ones more […]
East Timorese newspaper Tempo Semanal published an article this week which claims that the new Timorese Government represents "an oligarchy", and criticises the new government for its size and for the fact that it contained some brothers and sisters. There was criticism of the last Timorese Government for many reasons, including corruption. However, this same […]
Book Review: The Scapegoat, About the Expulsion of Michael Rasmussen from the Tour De France 2007 and beyond, Verner Møller , Akaprint, Aarhus, 2011. Martin Hardie The self published English translation of Møller ‘s book on Michael Rasmussen (Møller, Verner. 2010a. Løgn over løgn – om Michael Rasmussens Tour de France exit, Copenhagen, […]