Did Tyson Gay’s Coach Give the Sprinter Banned Substances?
Jon Drummond, saying he is facing a lifetime ban, is suing Gay and the head of U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for defamation.
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Weak Sanctions: A Major Shift in Anti-Doping Strategy
Anti-doping investigators say they would rather trade leniency for information on coaches and other athletes involved in doping.
Why Are Synthetic Hormones Off-Limits in Sports?
Our bodies naturally create hundreds of hormones that are key to determining our athletic abilities. But the introduction of unnatural hormones raises important questions about how we define sex and gender.
London Hosts the Olympics: How Success for People Is a Failure of Place
A living, breathing example of how we misunderstand the inequity of poverty.
A Brief History of the Great Gay Olympics
Russian legislators have said they will enforce new anti-gay laws during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but the ancient athletic games started out as little more than a gigantic festival of homoerotic excess.
Supervised Drug Injection Clinic in Vancouver Finds Success
A counterintuitive approach to addiction in “Canada’s poorest postal code.”
Today in Mysterious Athletic Tape: Now It’s for Horses Too
Debate continues to rage over the effectiveness of Kinesio Tape, the colorful substance so many London Olympians, Tour…
Why Writers Run
New Yorker editor Nicholas Thompson and staff writer Malcolm Gladwell have been bantering about running and the Olympics. In…
How Fast Is Usain Bolt?
Yesterday Usain Bolt won the Men’s 100-meter final in 9.63 seconds. He is faster than an elephant (but…
North Korea is Winning the Olympics
In an Olympic showdown that Jimmy Kimmel is presumably writing jokes about this very second, North Korea’s An…