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By Roald Bradstock    Friday, 15 January 2016
Are we fighting a losing battle trying to stop athletes taking performance enhancing drugs? Is cheating just so much a part of “our” collective genetic makeup that it can never be eradicated from sport? Is the only option to throw more money at it, and make the offenders criminals and put them in prison, or is there an alternative, albeit extreme option?
20 January, 2016
Original Article Inspiration is an integral part of sports: inspiring stories, inspirational performances and inspirational athletes. Cheating, unfortunately, is another, albeit less savory, aspect of the sporting world. But how can two such polar opposites come together to inspire us? It's not possible, is it?
10 December, 2014
Original Article Question: How high can a human throw something? (From Irish Dave on the Isle of Man) Answer: Humans are good at throwing things. In fact, we’re great at it; no other animal can throw stuff like we can.
09 September, 2014
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  • Posted September 21, 2010 at 3:27 p.m., updated September 21, 2010 at 3:27 p.m.
Ilene Safron, Main Sail Video Production Peggy Fleming The Art of the Olympians, began as a dream of Olympic gold medalist Al Oerter. He spent the last two years of his life organizing Art of the Olympians by collecting artwork in various mediums from Olympic athletes, lobbied for a
15 August, 2010
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Roald Bradstock: Art and the Olympics

10 April 2009By Roald Bradstock - 10 April 2009 As an artist and an athlete I find the recent discussion about the "The Cultural Olympiad" and its role in the Olympics very interesting. A journalist wrote in an article recently that "it" would "be a tiny side show" to the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. Unfortunately this is a point of view that many people may have, but what amuses me is that art and the arts is so intertwined with the Olympics that people cannot see it.
10 April, 2009
By Roald Bradstock - 10 April 2009 As an artist and an athlete I find the recent discussion about the "The Cultural Olympiad" and its role in the Olympics very interesting. A journalist wrote in an article recently that "it" would "be a tiny side show" to the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. Unfortunately this is a point of view that many people may have, but what amuses me is that art and the arts is so intertwined with the Olympics that people cannot see it.
10 April, 2009