BECAUSE nobody can simply stay silent anymore, and because nothing has happened unless someone tells you it has happened, there inevitably comes a time when a boxer, if careless enough to get caught taking performance-enhancing drugs, must decide when to declare their innocence online. It is only having done this, you see, that they can feel satisfied that their version of events is out there and that the process – whatever that may entail – can now actually begin. It is only having done this that they can go to bed at night and not consider it hiding.
Conditioned, rather tragically, to believe silence equals guilt, we have in recent times grown accustomed to seeing
