Would’ve thought this would have been a hot button topic right now. Maybe not so much in triathlon, but certainly in the component disciplines.
WADA response:
Which is more corrupt, IOC or FIFA? They are battling for the lead.
IOC, FIFA, IAAF, FINA, UCI… They all follow the same sorts of business practices. UCI maybe a little less so in recent years (maybe??).
It is a joke. Anyone who thinks any sport is clean, well, …
You watch for entertainment value, nothing more.
I hope podium athletes wear Dopers Suck shirts.
Would’ve thought this would have been a hot button topic right now. Maybe not so much in triathlon, but certainly in the component disciplines.
WADA response:
It’s now State sponsored doping 1 International Olympic Committee 0 clean athlete -1 whistle blowers -1
In many respects the decision gives a green light to State sponsored doping and serves as a warning to whistle blowers.
It’s now State sponsored doping 1 International Olympic Committee 0 clean athlete -1 whistle blowers -1
In many respects the decision gives a green light to State sponsored doping and serves as a warning to whistle blowers.
“We choose to have our high jumpers jump over the moon, not because doping is easy, but because apparently we can do this sort of thing now!”
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Big problem is that leaving the decision so late in the game, there aren’t a lot of options. Decision should have been to ban 'em all, waive the “presumption of innocence” for anyone based in or with significant ties to the Russian federation, and allow individual athletes the opportunity to compete once they have demonstrated that they are without a doubt clean.
To do that, the process would have had to have started months ago, not 2 weeks before the Games start.
Somewhere lawyers are like +10000 ahead in all of this.
That’s the only reason why IOC acted this way.
The crazy part to me is not that some of their athletes (or all) were doping, but that KGB operatives broke into labs at Sochi to switch samples. That is NUTS!
Reading the ESPN article, it seems all the info was there in Jan of 2016, but wada sat on it til mid May:
A wider investigation into Russian sport should have been triggered no later than January 2016, when Part II of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent commission report was released. There was plenty of smoke at that point and athlete representatives called for it. Instead, WADA did not act until May, pushing its newest report to mid-July.
It’s worse than that, the IOC has sat on this for THREE YEARS.
CAS is going to be really busy over the next couple of weeks.
It’s worse than that, the IOC has sat on this for THREE YEARS.
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/…-and-the-ioc-250701/
You think the IOC has only known for 3 years?
Why not ban Russia, but allow the athletes to compete under the olympic flag? Wouldn’t that do the trick? Punish the state, allow the innocent(?) to compete.
IOC, FIFA, IAAF, FINA, UCI… They all follow the same sorts of business practices. UCI maybe a little less so in recent years (maybe??).
How the heck did you leave off NFL, MLB, NCAA, NBA, NHL from this list. These guys are at the very top of the slippery moral values heap.
I’m separating willingness to tolerate doping from general corruption issues
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I’m separating willingness to tolerate doping from general corruption issues
Well tolerating doping allows for more heroics…more spectacular performances, more revenue at the gate/TV. The only reason pro sports have to pretend that they are anti doping is because they don’t want to be responsible for every high school kid getting shot up by their mom and dad (and maybe dying) because that is what you need to do to get drafted. But the desire for superlative performances on the field are direclty linked to revenue which as we know is directly related to the corruption linked to monetary sums exchanging hands…soooooo I don’t see how you can decouple them because one falls out of the other…more doping = more money for the sport/league. More money = more corruption.
Waiting to here from the ITU…
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/archery-federation-approves-3-russian-athletes-rio-games-111224109.html