Paul Kelso Biography
- Title:
- Chief Sports Reporter for the Daily Telegraph
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“The Beijing [Olympic] Games will see the largest anti-doping operation ever mounted at a sporting event…
The IOC has seldom been more in need of a clean Games but the uncomfortable truth is that it will not get one, regardless of how many samples are collected…
The threat of random testing remains a crucial deterrent to opportunists and a last line of defence against determined abusers but, two decades after the lid was blown in Olympic sport when Ben Johnson was disqualified in Seoul, the cheats are setting a pace that has exposed the limitations of the test-tube approach.”
“Beijing Plans Testing on Military Scale But Cheats Will Still Prosper,” Guardian, Aug. 1, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Chief Sports Reporter, Daily Telegraph, Aug. 2008-present
- Sports News Correspondent, Olympics Correspondent, News Reporter and Internet Sports Editor, Guardian, 1998-2008
- Education:
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- None found
- Other:
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- None found