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Aphiwe Dyantyi’s anti-doping charge has rocked the world of rugby. With under a month to go until the sport’s showpiece tournament in Japan, this is exactly the type of story that nobody wants to read. The South African international winger…
The past week might just have been the worst week of rugby news in history. Not ‘the worst’ because it has been dull – far from it – ‘the worst’ in the sense that almost all the news has been…
“The last twenty years have seen huge growth in sports arbitration. Rather than allowing disputes to be settled in ordinary domestic courts, most Sports Governing Bodies (SGBs) now provide for all disputes under their regulations to be settled exclusively by…
On the same day last month, it was announced that two rugby players from opposite ends of the playing spectrum had received four-year doping bans. August 13 saw US Eagle Aaron Davis and Clevedon RFC’s Dean Ashfield both sanctioned by…
On 23rd July 2018, the National Anti-Doping Panel (“the Panel”) handed down their decision in the case of Wasps RFC’s Ashley Johnson. After failing a drugs test earlier this year, the flanker-cum-hooker was given a six-month ban backdated to the…
Challenging the Call: Sporting Governing Bodies and Judicial Review | Keep Calm Talk Law Courts have long resisted extending judicial review to sporting governing bodies, using a strained notion of contract to provide cover where necessary. However, with sport playing…
Crossing the Line in Sport: Is Cheating Always Wrong? | Keep Calm Talk Law The distinction between cheating and gamesmanship is incredibly difficult to define. At what point should we draw the line?
High Tackling: does Rugby have a cocaine problem? Ben Cisneros says that no tolerance is the only way to preserve the sport's integrity.
"Drugs cheats" should not be denied the opportunity to fight their corner The likes of Justin Gatlin, Maria Sharapova, and Tyson Fury are not given the chance to explain themselves by the vultures of the media.
