Ever since Peter O’Connor scaled a flagpole in Athens to call out Olympic unfairness the stage was set for winning athletes to make powerful statements. So why outlaw it now?

"Where was the board?"

Entrepreneurship has been faced with an age-old debate…are entrepreneurs born or made? While there are limited academic studies that support the notion that successful entrepreneurs are born, there is far more research that suggest theories between the similarities that successful entrepreneurs share in their decision-making. One of the most robust theories in the academic literature that explains differences in performance between entrepreneurs is the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) construct. Based on the decisions and actions of the strategy making process, the EO construct attempts to explain the how of entrepreneurial activity.

No sanctions will be imposed on Russia until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rules on the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s (RUSADA) appeal against the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decision to declare it non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code. At a Christmas Eve meeting, the RUSADA Executive Board approved its Supervisory Board’s recommendation to appeal and instructed Yuriy Ganus, Director General, to file it with WADA today.

THIS week I continue examining the bogus organisation of sport in our country illustrated by the fate of gymnast Thema Williams (my pro bono client in the High Court), whom the court declared had been a victim of bias.

Abigail Vieira was making her debut in the world in 2002 the same year Trinidad and Tobago’s three-man bobsleigh team - Gregory Sun, Andrew McNeill and Errol Aguilera - flew the red, white and black at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.