Same old Russians, always cheating
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<p>I'm not at all surprised with this decision. The IOC is spineless and Coe is full of hot air. :(</p>
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<p>Correction: I should say Bach. Coe can still redeem himself.</p>
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Coe (who I still think is dodgy having been in bed with Diack all these years) at least, as head of the IAAF, stood up and banned Russia from all the athletics. </p> -
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@siam said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
Icarus
Hell of a documentary - (it's on netflix)
I'll second this. Engrossing. Makes you think that top level athletics is riddled with drugs, which is probably because top level athletics is almost certainly riddled with drugs.
https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e
Link worth a read as well.
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China ‘compulsorily doped’ athletes in 1980s and 90s, claims whistleblower
A former doctor for the Chinese Olympic team has revealed that more than 10,000 of the country’s athletes were involved in a systematic doping programme across all sports – and that every one of China’s medals in major tournaments in the 1980s and 90s came from performance‑enhancing drugs.
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@tim said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
China ‘compulsorily doped’ athletes in 1980s and 90s, claims whistleblower
A former doctor for the Chinese Olympic team has revealed that more than 10,000 of the country’s athletes were involved in a systematic doping programme across all sports – and that every one of China’s medals in major tournaments in the 1980s and 90s came from performance‑enhancing drugs.
Whodathunk?
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@booboo said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
@tim said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
China ‘compulsorily doped’ athletes in 1980s and 90s, claims whistleblower
A former doctor for the Chinese Olympic team has revealed that more than 10,000 of the country’s athletes were involved in a systematic doping programme across all sports – and that every one of China’s medals in major tournaments in the 1980s and 90s came from performance‑enhancing drugs.
Whodathunk?
As the 12th Man would say, Wei Do Ping and Yei Wi Wun
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and so, a couple of years later, we are back here again.
Russia are banned from the Olympics. Not the athletes, just the Country. No anthems, no flags, just the athletes.
I don't get that at all to be honest. Either the athletes are clean, and the ban is a joke, or the athletes are dirty because, you know, state doping, and shouldn't be there either.
I find myself having very little time for anti-doping organisations. The cause they supposedly represent? yes, great. The organisations themselves? Just another large corrupt sporting organisation.
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@mariner4life they systematically doped to claim national glory. This punishes them by shaming but doesn't affect clean athletes.
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WADA is a bit toothless but some punishment is better than none at all. Reading more about this in recent days has been very interesting. The Russians have become a modern-day East Germany and then tried to frame and discredit the whistleblowers when the truth became known. Corruption started from the top.
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@Bovidae said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
WADA is a bit toothless but some punishment is better than none at all. Reading more about this in recent days has been very interesting. The Russians have become a modern-day East Germany and then tried to frame and discredit the whistleblowers when the truth became known. Corruption started from the top.
Yeah there should be no Russian athletes competing, even for a 'no country' - unless they have lived under another countries doping system for over 8 years, or before the first evidence was.
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@Bovidae said in Same old Russians, always cheating:
The Russians have become a modern-day East Germany and then tried to frame and discredit the whistleblowers when the truth became known. Corruption started from the top.
I don't think it is counted as "corruption" when it is a state organised activity -- technically the Russian doping agency would be corrupt if it didn't do its government policy, and actually tested properly. This is much worse than corruption, because it can't be rooted out until the government changes its policy.
They need to ban all Russian athletes until Russia agrees to play by the same rules as everyone else.
One way round it would be to exempt the current Russian athletes from the normal country qualifications. Once established as drug free by a country that actually tests properly, they could then compete for that country.
That would drive Putin crazy, because all his athletes would then be winning medals for other countries. Even worse if they won medals for other countries only because they were expertly doped by Russians!
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Not Russia, but drugs.
