CONGRATULATIONS to the following: Jessica McCaskill, Sandy Ryan, Richardson Hitchins, Jose Zepeda, Joe Joyce and Zhilei Zhang. Somehow, those six boxers all managed to get through training camps without either feeling the need to take performance-enhancing drugs or getting caught with them in their systems.
We know this because the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) recently celebrated, via social media, as has become common practice of late, these fighters’ ability to play by the rules. Rather confusing, though, is the wording and overall point of this behaviour. Why, for example, should a boxer ever be congratulated for simply doing something they should, in