Russia’s Track And Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics Amid Doping Controversy

[Jimzz]

Russia’s Track And Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics Amid Doping Controversy

https://consumerist.com/2016/06/17/...ed-from-rio-olympics-amid-doping-controversy/


"But in the days before Friday’s vote, the World Anti-Doping Agency questioned Russia’s reforms, saying that the testing authorities from the United Kingdom had been threatened while collecting urine samples by members of Russia’s Federal Security Service. It also said many athletes, many of them track and fielders, had outrun authorities trying to test them."

Hahaha. I have nothing to hide... you just have to catch me to test me.

 

[TheGardener]

they all do it. professional and amateur alike. all sports.

 

[kranky]

The only way to have a level playing field is to let the athletes use whatever they want to boost performance. The way it is now, only the athletes with access to money get cutting-edge techniques and designer potions to avoid detection.

Throw out detection, ban nothing. If athletes don't care about dying at age 30 from abuse of PEDs in order to perhaps win something at age 25, let them.

 

[vi edit]

Was it an SNL skit that had the all steroid Olympics where lifters ripped their arms off lifting weights?

EDIT - YUP!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4090

 

[cbrunny]

they all do it. professional and amateur alike. all sports.

i bet you're fun at parties.

 

[Jimzz]

they all do it. professional and amateur alike. all sports.

This was not a case of someone cheating but a country and its entire program knowingly cheating. And even after getting caught and promising to stop they kept it up and just threatened the testers or the athletes themselves ran from them.

 

[Slew Foot]

Meh, just let them use whatever the hell they want

 

[sdifox]

IOC will probably do something to let some Russian athletes off the hook and compete.

 

[Red Squirrel]

They should have a separate doping/cheating olympics where everything goes, could be rather entertaining.

 

[Humpy]

They should have a separate doping/cheating olympics where everything goes, could be rather entertaining.

I'd like to see that too but I think it would quickly kill off the pure sporting.

Probably the biggest thing I have an irrational hatred of is cheating in sports. It's like cheating at poetry or painting. WTF is the point? If you want to hide a motor on your bicycle just fucking race motorcycles. Assholes.

 

[TheGardener]

i bet you're fun at parties.

What kind of fun are you interested in?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

They should have a separate doping/cheating olympics where everything goes, could be rather entertaining.

I see that turning into Roman Games.

 

[shimpster]

Russian research into the human body physiology is carried over to every day medical purposes. Thus, even tho this might be cheating, it is for the advancement of medicine and human livez. Plus, President Putin will have an alternate strategy to enable the athletes to compete. Recall, any man that can invade another country and keep the identity of the invaderz hidden, under the nose of nato, will easily have his athletez compete in the olympics.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Maybe they were just looking for a reason to not go to Brazil.

 

[brianmanahan]

they all do it. professional and amateur alike. all sports.

can confirm, i roid up to go golfing once a week

 

[shimpster]

i think the IOC will allow individual russian athletes to compete if they were not involved in the alleged scheme.
and the IOC fearz President Putin and his skilled political maneuverz