What is cheating in sport?
Cheating is bad, clean athletes are good, end of argument. You must know us better by now?! But what does really constitute cheating in sport? There was a time when training would be considered cheating. Athletic pursuits were thought of as a way to pit natural talents against each other and ‘artificial’ enhancement through training was frowned upon. No one today would consider training cheating. However, other methods of bending the rules or enhancing performance certainly are. There have been a number of high-profile cases regarding coaches and the culture they have generated that facilitates cheating or at the very...