The New York Times‘ Rob Hughes writes:
Cheating in sports has been around a very long time, but is there more of it in the world today? And if there is, surely with modern science we can deal with it?
The sports pages Tuesday were indicative of the trend: The jockey banned for providing inside information to bettors, the motor racer allegedly instructed to deliberately crash to alter the outcome, the rugby player who feigned a blood injury, the dopers in athletics, and, of course, the furor in soccer over top players simulating fouls to obtain penalties by deceit.
On Tuesday, UEFA, which oversees soccer in Europe, banned Eduardo da Silva, the Arsenal forward, for two matches. A disciplinary panel decided to over rule the match referee, by concluding from video evidence that Eduardo deceived the referee into thinking he was tripped by Celtic’s goalkeeper Artur Boruc in the Champions League last week. More…
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