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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

(All together now): How do you solve a problem like Maria?

This organ’s stance of the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sports is a matter of long-standing record and after Abbie Boraston-Green’s piece yesterday on Maria Sharapova’s failed drugs test at the Australian Open we do not propose to follow the story’s developments on a blow-by-blow [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of elite women’s sport

Later today at some point – I get confused as to time zones and how many hours Australia is ahead of the UK – Serena Williams takes part in the Women’s Final at the Australian Open as (the last time I looked) the 1/5 on favourite. If she wins Serena will equal Steffi Graf’s record of 22 [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sport – a new crisis point, or a crossroads?

It borders upon the inevitable and clichéd to say that in the 21st Century the average sports fan could be forgiven for doubting everything he or she ever believed about the integrity of elite sporting contests. Cycling … FIFA … the IAAF … performance-enhancing drugs … unequal division of [...]

January 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another sporting scandal rumbles on

Yesterday part 2 of the World Doping Agency report into the IAAF’s connection with the long-term performance-enhancing drugs scandal in the sport of track and field was made public. As it happens, I was having my post-prandial nap at the time the press conference began being transmitted [...]

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Wrapping up

It proved a rewarding and productive trip from which all four Rusters would have taken away their own perceptions. It should be remembered that Cape Town is rather a bubble for many reasons not least that it is run by the Democratic Alliance (DA). The DA under a black leader Mmusi Maimani is doing [...]

January 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fourth day

One of the biggest issues in South African cricket is the quota system to develop non-white cricketers. Initially I took the view that a team should pick its best side but being here, reading the local press and and appreciating the political culture, my position has shifted. One must remember the [...]

January 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day 3: let battle commence

England start as firm favourites with Jimmy Anderson back in the bowling line up. South Africa have deep problems. The side that dominated world cricket are now in severe decline, inevitable with the retirement of Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith and their 3 best players, Amla, AB De Villiers and [...]

January 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ding-dong madness in south-west London

Aviva Premiership Round 7 – Twickenham Stadium, Sunday 27th December 2015 – Harlequins 39 Gloucester 39 [3 league points each: 2 for the draw, 1 each for scoring 4 tries]. Today – whilst leaving Rust readers who have either watched the game live on BT Sport and/or who read newspaper reports [...]

December 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sport – there’s plenty happening!

Spotted on the broadsheet newspaper websites today are some compelling pieces that deserve being recommended to National Rust readers and indeed all sports fans. Try these: On the amount that players’ agents get paid, here’s a piece by Tom Sheen featuring in – THE INDEPENDENT On [...]

December 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubled times

It gives me no pleasure at all that my subject today is sport as it relates to integrity and morality but the spate of recent media revelations has caused me to question some of the fundamentals of human life – it is really that important. From my earliest memories of learning things at my [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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