Doping saga: lonely at the top

ONLY a blessed few are able to use their innate talents to climb the highest podiums and lap up all the glory, accolades and the pots of cash that are available to sportsmen and women who excel at sport.

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While talent alone is not enough to cut it in this environment, it’s well known that hard work, sacrifice and dedication are some of the other ingredients in the tanks of star athletes.

To say that the bodies of sports stars are their temples, and what they put in is what they get out, are some par for the course clichés that speak of the straight and narrow path that athletes must traverse to remain in peak condition.