- Italian and French media collaborate on an investigation into motors in elite cycling. Really worth a look - Here is the 20 minute TV report (en Francais, but worth watching whatever languages you speak)
- The UCI responds
- USA Today has released an updated database on college athletics budgets
- Good NYT article on US swimmer Katie Ledecky's decision to swim in college and the financial rewards lost
- FIFA scandal: U.S. prosecutors examine role of banks, broadcasters and sponsors in soccer bribery probe
- Track and field: A cool viz of heights and weights of 2012 London participants
- CAS is filling in for Russia's suspended T&F federation to hold hearings on 12 athletes caught taking Meldonium. These athletes have waived their right to appeal. Problematic?
- South Africa's Caster Semenya scorched the track over the week-end, qualifying for Rio 2016 (watch her run here). Sean Ingle reviews the issues and previews the coming discussion. Here is me on "sex testing" in sport in the NYT last summer - a more in depth discussion will appear in The Edge.
- Close to home: Arsenal lost the PL title this year in London.
- The manufacturing of Mildronat (commercial name for Meldonium) wants it off the WADA prohibited list.
- Boris Becker doesn't think that Andy Murry should be talking about doping in tennis. Here is what Andy said to the Mail on Sunday.
- Finally, the NYT's graphic showing Steph Curry's epic achievements from beyond the 3 point line this year is a masterful data viz:
Question about meldonium and the questions raised of WADA about the validity of the science behind adding it to the banned list. It was the Partnership of Clean Competition that funded the research project that was ultimately key in putting meldonium on that list in the first place. It seems a little odd that an organization dedicated to supporting quality anti-doping research could allow such flimsy evidence to be published. Where does the PCC stand in all of this? Should they be held accountable?
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