Apart, that is, from Sam Newman losing fifty percent of his rant material.

What if the rules providing for the separation of the sexes in sporting competitions were ripped up the day after?

The reality is we are about to find out - in part at least.

When the German television and British newspaper investigations exposed the flaws in the Russian anti-doping system, one of the first steps the global authorities took when eventually cajoled into action was to close RUSADA - the Russian Anti-doping Agency.

But the only significant action was to suspend Russian participation in international track and field.  Amongst all of the sports in which Russia excels internationally, only athletics has to get its act in order to have its members of the entry lists in Rio.

For all other sports in Russia it’s business as usual, except for one thing – there’s no domestic anti-doping agency testing its athletes.

Whilst UK authorities have been contracted to step in and replace RUSADA, the reported outcomes are disturbing. Since they took over, less than half the testing that took place in the equivalent period last year seems to have taken place.

It appears that the no-notice testing regime used elsewhere means anything up to 30 days in Russia - such is the difficulty of implementing the UKADA operation.

Whatever the perception of RUSADA’s ethics may be, it was still knocking over a fair number of athletes across all sports.

And then to the subject of gender, where the Russians are not to blame.

More so the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a bunch of do-gooders to took up the case of an Indian athlete of apparently ambiguous gender.

There is no better example of confliction in the pursuit of feminist causes than this.

The advocates for Dutee Chand succeeded in getting the IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism suspended for two years. For the moment there are no rules or guidelines to determine whether females with such conditions may compete against other women.

Chand has improved over 100 metres substantially in the months since she has been allowed to compete, to the point where she is now just .01 from the Olympic entry standard.

After an equivocal couple of years in terms of performance, South Africa’s Caster Semenya has turned heads with some astonishing feats – the assumption being that now she does not have to comply with the previous regulations.

Fairness in sport is at a new multi-junction crossroads. Never before has sport required fearless and forceful international leadership quite as it does right now.