![]() ![]() Sports were codified, Fagan says, because of match-fixing. Match fixers hovered about Stawell Gift-style foot races and cycling races nationwide. Early last century rugby league star Dally Messenger warned about ''tonic pills'' and ''peppers'', olden-day ''uppers''. ![]() Historian Sean Fagan claims corruption and bad behaviour have been part of Australian sport since the 1800s. Sheedy believes the crime and drug investigations are evidence of an awakening to the need to win back sport's core values and to protect its integrity. ![]() ''With global communications now, people rush into new markets, whether that market is bringing in illicit drugs or whatever to make money,'' he says. It reflects the best of society, he believes, citing a recent AFL match in which Sudanese migrant Majak Daw opposed Nic Naitanui, who is of Fijian heritage, but it can also highlight society's worst. ![]() Sport's the same.''ĭespite its place in the entertainment industry, Sheedy says the prime attractions of sport remain its human stories of personal development and the quest for excellence. If you rush a building and it falls over, it's not progress. ''And it's about the way you go about it. ''Progress must be progress for the right reasons,'' he says. ![]()
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