Roger Alton Roger Alton

Abandon dope, all ye who enter here

Also in Spectator Sport: the All Blacks, Gareth Southgate and Rooneygate

issue 26 November 2016

The World Anti-Doping Agency has just called on Russia to confront its wrongdoing and generally shape up. Well, good luck with that boys. The great and good of Wada would be better advised to visit a sharp and troubling new play at the Park Theatre in London. It’s called Deny Deny Deny (standard advice to athletes accused of doping before they come up with some hitherto unknown medical condition) and is by a former TV journalist, Jonathan Maitland.

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