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Tuesday 05 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
At the 1960 games in Rome, the first known Olympic doper, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen, died after being given Roniacol before his race - a drug intended to increase blood circulation.
Yet from the East German swimmers, to Ben Johnson and Marion Jones, athletes have continued to push the boundaries of peak fitness with illegal doping. When Lance Armstrong finally admitted to Oprah Winfrey last month that for him it hadn’t actually been ‘All About the Bike’, the collective disappointment was palpable.
Now, an Australian Crime Commission report has revealed damning allegations of doping, match fixing and links to organised crime in Australian sporting codes.
What should we make of the ACC report? Should we expect more from our athletes and our sporting organisations? And what are the ramifications of sports science wizardry (and other forms of cheating) for Australian athletes, administrators, coaches and fans?
Featuring
Sally Warhaft
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year ...
Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist 32 years, published 32 books and edited seven others. His latest is book is Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket published in 2016 by Penguin Random House.
Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon is the president of the Western Bulldogs. He led the rescue of the Footscray Football Club in 1989 and served as president from 1989 to 1996. He was an Australian Football League director between 1990 and 1993.
Internationally renowned for his work on numerous landmark cases, Peter Gordon conducted the first successful asbestos related cancer claim in Australia in 1984. Peter was a lawyer at Slater & Gordon for 30 years. He became a partner of the firm in 1989 and senior partner in 1995. In 2009 he resigned as a non-executive director of Slater & Gordon to launch CLF, a litigation funding enterprise; he is director of this company. Peter also established Gordon Legal, where he is director.
Peter has long worked at the cutting edge of mass tort and consumer class action litigation, including representing the Australian Council of Trade Unions and asbestos support groups in the James Hardie Inquiry.
Peter is a member of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Board as a person with expertise in business, management, communications and law.
Tim Lane
Tim Lane has been broadcasting and writing about sport for more than 40 years. He spent three decades with the ABC covering football and international cricket, and worked at five Olympic Games. Today, he writes a weekly column for the Sunday Age and continues to broadcast AFL games and cricket on 3AW.