Champs, dopes and who knows what else

I did something unprecedented last weekend. I watched the Shanghai Formula One race. Like any other kaypoh, I'm intrigued by scandals of all types. The whole year I've been seeing news

about Alonso and Hamilton so since I happened to turn the TV on sometime during the live telecast of the race, I decided to see if Hamilton would indeed turn out to be world champion. As it turned out, that was about the time Hamilton and his car ended up in the gravel. So... there's the next race next weekend somewhere in Brazil. Don't know if I'll watch it. Watching Formula One is potentially heart attack-inducing. And anyway, watching fast cars going round 56 laps isn't really my kind of thing.

Arguably, though, the biggest news in sports recently must be the Marion Jones business. What can I say? Basically, I'm suspicious of anybody and everybody, athlete or official.

Also this week, Andy Murray is the latest guy who talks about tennis match-fixing, plus, a Chinese champion triathlete is found to have been taking stuff. Again, what can I say?

Sorry, blur picture. The sign says 'Doping Station'.

Sad and cynical as this may sound, if some news comes out tomorrow that half the tennis matches I've watched were fixed, half of a certain female soccer team is actually male, half of a certain rugby world championship team are actually bears in disguise or the whole of a certain synchro swimming team is actually a bunch of mermaids, well, what will there be to say?

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