Zum Thema Manchester City vs. Premier League:
The BBC’s Ros Atkins explains: youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HWQatIXK8
Dazu gibt es einen neuen Artikel im „The Athletic“:
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The Premier League, we should remember, is a private company owned by whichever 20 clubs are competing in the division. And moments such as this would appear to underline the absurdity of the Premier League being the competition organiser, regulator and prosecutor simultaneously. For a long time, we wondered whether a body that seeks to sell broadcast deals all over the globe would view it as being in the competition’s interests to move decisively to accuse one of its own of a decade’s worth of cheating.
How would we treat another sport, say cycling or track and field, where the most successful outfit, boasting the most talented coach and gifted players, is accused of cheating over a course of a decade? The UK parliament would likely haul the sport’s organisers over hot coals in a select committee and we would question if we believe what we are seeing in front of us. Scepticism would be conditioned.
But there is, rightly or wrongly, a further reality at play. If a doped-up athlete has been putting needles in their arms or consuming substances so they can run higher, jump further or move faster than their rivals, it is a more engaging and compelling narrative for the general public to wrap its head around, because we are directly familiar with the athletes who turn out in front of us, and because it is frankly easier to understand.
Yet even if athletics might attract scepticism, the truth is that when the 100 metres races start at the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, they remain the hottest ticket in town.