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Tom Hollingsworth is a former deputy sports editor of the Daily Express. For many years he worked in a sports agency, representing mainly football players and motor racing drivers. Tom holds a private pilot’s licence and flying is his principal recreation. More Posts

A boxing treat

Overnight – because these things happen when you’re a senior citizen – I was wide awake (albeit lying on my back in bed) when Carl Frampton, former word super-bantamweight champion, stepped into the ring at Brookyln’s Barclay Center in New York to challenge Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Gender issues in sport

With Rio 2016 fast approaching, here’s a link to a thought-provoking and well-balanced article by Donald McRae on Caster Semenya, the South African athlete who is expected to do great things on the Olympics athletics track, that appears today on the website of – THE GUARDIAN It covers [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drugs – it’s one way or the other

No apologies here for posting another round in the Rust‘s reporting of sports cheating via the use of performance-enhancing drugs and yes, it concerns Russia and the 2016 Rio Olympics which begin about a week from now. My subject today is not the fact that my old pal Vladimir Putin who [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around

Although one can perhaps empathise with the sentiment, the famous “History is bunk” saying of legendary car manufacturer (the original) Henry Ford does not actually provide a complete answer. He was making the point that the greatest (most important) impetus in making progress is the [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roger, over … and out

The Rust has never apologised for taking a hard-line approach to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, but last weekend’s decision by the International Olympic Committee not to kick Russia out of the 2016 Rio Games – instead leaving it to the controlling federations of individual [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The state of UK sport?

The UK can boast 5 champions in their sport: Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton and Rory McIlroy and I would argue this compares favourably with bigger countries like the USA, Germany and Brazil, or those with greater historic sporting pedigree like Australia. You might argue [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Way to go, Rory!

With the Rio Olympics opening ceremony now only a few weeks away, it would seem that the IOC – and some of the governing bodies of sports admitted to the ‘family’ – could do with more adverse advance publicity like a hole in the head. The IOC is a bit like FIFA is to football and maybe [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

[Embarrassed cough] … Sorry, I’ll be on my bike, then

Once again risking the wrath of the PC-brigade and the accusation that the Rust has been captured by a bunch of a unit of misogynistic male curmudgeons, I return today to the complex subject of female sport in its widest sense – viz. encapsulating aspects such as gender equality, positive [...]

July 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

The right stuff

Hats off today to Valerie Adams, New Zealand’s double Olympic gold medallist shot putt champion, for her uncompromising black and white attitude towards sportsmen and women who cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs. See here – article by Donald McCrae that appears today on the [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Is seeing really believing?

As regular readers will be aware, the Rust always keeps one eager eye open for media developments or comments on the subject of performance-enhancing drugs and cheating generally in the world of sport. Here’s an article by Catherine Bennett that appears on the website today of – THE [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

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