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Interesting times: IPL has been accused of treating players like cattle and Formula One is going to stop treating women like cattle
It has been an interesting few days. The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been accused of treating players like cattle and Formula One (F1) is going to stop treating women like cattle. Vladimir Putin, who took a dip in icy water last week to celebrate the Epiphany, earlier this week apologised to the Russians heading to the Winter Olympics for not protecting them during the doping scandal. Not a day later, 28 Russian athletes had their lifetime bans lifted. A coincidence, surely. On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned doping bans for the 28 ahead of the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, ruling that there was insufficient evidence that they had broken anti-doping rules at the 2014 Games. While there were no reports on how Putin’s manly bits reacted to the cold water (they probably got bigger), you can be sure there will be a lot of shrivelling going on in the hiding place of Grigory Rodchenkov. The former head of the Moscow anti-doping lab testified that he ...
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