Nine days to go until the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but surprise surprise, North Korea are reneging on their cultural partnership with the south. Putin believes it isn't only the Russians who are doping at the Olympics, SASCOC to again ruin the hopes and dreams of Sive Speelman, and the team is put forward for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Finally the Wanderers escapes a ban, but only just after that recent India test match.