Yesterday I got an email from the BBC asking if I’d like to talk about my recent posts about Christine Ohuruogu for the World: Have Your Say radio program. Pretty exciting!

The discussion was on doping convictions and whether we can even take athletes seriously after so many of them have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs. While I completely support Christine Ohuruogu and the BOA’s decision to allow her to compete in the Olympics, I do think that many athletes are getting a synthetic edge.

Listen to the show online or get the podcast!

From my personal blog about the show:

Just a little hypothetical situation here. In case you live abroad, and all your coworkers speak second-language English, you might get pretty used to speaking very slowly and using the simplest words possible. You may even drop an “I very like” into conversation, or skip an article now and again.

It’s not a problem, until you speak to someone who actually speaks English well. In fact, you might say that radio people speak English for a living. This may make you feel extremely stupid. Not that any of that happened to me, of course.