Richard Boock - Sports and Drugs

Name:	Richard Boock
Title:	Author and sports journalist
Position:	Pro to the question "Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports?"
Reasoning:	"It's unclear why we continue to beat ourselves up over performance-enhancing drugs, it's not as if international sport has a great tradition of being pure and clean. Up until 1968 it was a free-for-all; over the next 20 years it was only moderately restricted, and even now the poachers seem light years ahead of the game-keepers" "Drug Testing Just Dopey," Sunday Star Times, July 31, 2008
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Organizations/VIPs/Others Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories.
Involvement and Affiliations:	Cricket Correspondent, Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand) Chief Cricket Writer, New Zealand Herald Nominated, Millennium Hotels Award for Sports Column/Opinion, 2008 Sir Terry McLean National Sports Journalism Awards
Education:	None found
Contact Info:	Phone: 09-379-5050 (New Zealand Herald) Fax: 09-73 6420 (New Zealand Herald) E-Mail: Online Contact Form Website: New Zealand Herald
Select Publications:	Daniel Vettori: Turning Point, 2008 "Selling Out for a Pint," Sunday Star-Times, Sep. 28, 2008 "Drug Testing Just Dopey," Sunday Star-Times, July 31, 2008 "Hitting a Speed Bump," Sunday Star-Times, May 4, 2008 "Too Much Monkey Business," Sunday Star-Times, Jan. 20, 2008 "England quick to erase doubts," New Zealand Herald, Nov. 25, 2006 Stephen Fleming: Balance of Power, 2004
Other:	His brother Stephen is a former professional cricket player
Also Quoted in:	1. Does the use of performance enhancing drugs violate the "spirit of sport"?