Grey areas en route to gold

This appears to lie in that murky grey area somewhere between sporting expediency and downright cheating

Fingers crossed, touch wood and steady as she goes but these Olympic Games have mercifully, so far, been relatively free of failed drugs tests, devoid of bribery scandals and even comparatively lacking in officiating errors. As I said, so far.

Yet all is still not well in the pursuit of Olympic ideals over in London, at least depending on your viewpoint. There has been moral outrage in some quarters this week at the eight badminton players disqualified from the women’s doubles after being accused of “not using one’s best efforts to win”.