Drama for days: the sports stars who made headlines for all the wrong reasons

03 Jan 2022

Kim Wendy Abrahams

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Simone Biles, Quinton de Kock and Novak Djokovic were just some of the sports heroes who made headlines. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/ Getty Images)

They're athletes at the top of their game – fit, fabulously talented and super famous. But in 2021 they didn’t make headlines only for the sports they’ve mastered.

Controversy and drama were the order of the day in a year when achievement took a back seat to personal issues.

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