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After a lifetime in sports journalism, Charles Thursby continues his immersion in the world of sport by providing the National Rust with dispatches from all points of the compass. More Posts

D Day remembrance

It was a deeply moving experience to follow the proceedings yesterday, especially the humility of the 20 or so veterans. During the boring bits, when the Heads of  State individually took their seats for example, and the commentators had to pad, I found myself reflecting on my own memories. I was [...]

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here, m’Dear …

Back in the Dark Ages of the 20th Century, simply for our own enjoyment, some pals and I spent a proportion of our leisure time producing nakedly self-indulgent sports magazines – the first devoted exclusively to boxing and the second attempting to broaden our unique approach to all sports that [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

The perils of authenticity

For some reason which escapes me, yesterday I spent some time contemplating Chariots Of Fire, the 1981 British Oscar-notching [seven nominations and four wins including Best Film and Best Screenplay] movie and specifically what disappointed me about it. Three decades’ worth of distance may allow [...]

May 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Why are we surprised?

Continuing my occasional series of noting instances of ‘alleged’ sporting performance-enhancing drugs cheats being caught, today here’s another Track & Field 100 metres man getting a rap – step forward the USA’s Tyson Gay – as reported on the website of the [...]

May 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

… One step back

Continuing National Rust’s monitoring of all things related to sport and performance-enhancing drugs, today we note the announcement that Veronica Campbell-Brown has appealed successfully against her ban for a finding of HTC (a diuretic) in her urine in May 2013, due to errors in the testing [...]

April 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here’s another one …

More in sorrow than anger, today the National Rust records the drugs offence ban recently imposed upon Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson. No need to highlight that the sport concerned is track and field – and Jamaica – again. Nor that, as occurs with nearly every punishment dished [...]

April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Drugswatch: horse-racing

At the risk of mounting a one-man crusade, today I am beginning a series of occasional pieces highlighting instances and developments on the general subject of ‘drugs in sport’. By which phrase, I mean everything from detection efforts to performance-enhancing substances, performance-stopping [...]

March 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Drugs-watch

Inevitably, the use of drugs in sport is neither confined to performance-enhancing substances nor humans. Horse-racing has a long and notorious history of both doping and managing to fudge embarrassing scandals. I’ve heard it said, by those who know a lot more about the ‘sport of kings’ than [...]

March 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Working hard to catch up

With only a few weeks to go until the opening Grand Prix of the 2014 Formula One season, the Red Bull team is currently in a spot of difficulty with the development of its new car – see here for an article upon the problem on the website of the Daily Telegraph today – RED BULL ISSUES [...]

February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Video technology is imperfect but here to stay

The issue of using video and other high-tech gizmos in elite sport – and I don’t have any truck with the reservation ‘if you cannot introduce it comprehensively, you shouldn’t introduce it at all because integrity is affected if different rules apply to different levels of the sport ’ – [...]

January 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

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