Breaking: Russia banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics for systematic doping

[Muhammed45]

I'm sure you in turn are as honest as Lance Armstrong.

BTW It were US terrorists like George Bush and Colin Powell that were lying about WMD in Iraq. US lackeys have long history of lying.

Typical Americans, they doped, received medals and after years, oh i am so sorry. As if nothing happened, but they ban all of a team members for other persons' mistake.

American logic is steaming from their arrogance.

 

[nang2]

Politics now coming into every facet of international bodies. This is a disgusting decision. The olympics is supposed to be free from political battles but it seems not anymore.

As long as athletes are competing under their countries' national flags, it is inevitably political. Olympics should be run without under national flags/anthems, just a human name.

 

[jetray]

Hmm, cold war continues. I dont think there will be any rapprochement at political level any time soon between US & Russia.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

You do understand Lance Armstrong was taken down by the US AntiDoping Agency right? An lets not get off topic here. This is a thread on Russia's massive doping scheme and its just punishment.

Russia is BANNED from the 2018 Winter Olympics, which is unprecedented in history.

Not the first time Russia is banned.
The Russian Athletes were banned from Brazil as well.

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

China need to be investigated as well and banned in the Summer Olympics.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Man. That sucks.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Not the first time Russia is banned.
The Russian Athletes were banned from Brazil as well.

That was only a partial ban. This ban is essentially wiping Russia from existence during these Olympics.

 

[HannibalBarca]

"You do wrong...You pay...and if you don't pay now... one way or another...you will... it's just a matter of time."

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

China need to be investigated as well and banned in the Summer Olympics.

I think they are being more careful. Even the Anglo-Saxons beat them in the gold medal count in Rio.

 

[Nan Yang]

I think they are being more careful. Even the Anglo-Saxons beat them in the gold medal count in Rio.

Ok. Here we go again. Of course Anglos will get more medals. It is meant to be so. Using stupid games like esquarian ... Million dollar horse that require air conditioning or they can't complete. How many country can afford this "sport". And oh.. .. sport that they are good at they will have a hundred events. How about having 20 events for table tennis. Oh no no no. Change the rules to slow it down so that Anglos can see the ball... How about including some Asian sport like Martial arts and make it 100 events.

And if them Anglos still can't get ahead they will all quit and start a new "international" game call democracy games or human rights games.

They just can't lose.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Ok. Here we go again. Of course Anglos will get more medals. It is meant to be so. Using stupid games like esquarian ... Million dollar horse that require air conditioning or they can't complete. How many country can afford this "sport". And oh.. .. sport that they are good at they will have a hundred events. How about having 20 events for table tennis. Oh no no no. Change the rules to slow it down so that Anglos can see the ball... How about including some Asian sport like Martial arts and make it 100 events.

And if them Anglos still can't get ahead they will all quit and start a new "international" game call democracy games or human rights games.

They just can't lose.

C'mon Britain only won two gold medals for equestrian and China won 4 for ping-pong.
You are not going to win the lopsided event argument. Ping pong is only popular in China. Even the British don't play it...and they are the ones who actually invented it!

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

C'mon Britain only won two gold medals for equestrian and China won 4 for ping-pong.
You are not going to win the lopsided event argument. Ping pong is only popular in China. Even the British don't play it...and they are the ones who actually invented it!

We have actually beaten China in major events,
and the best table tennis player ever is from Sweden:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ove_Waldner

Ok. Here we go again. Of course Anglos will get more medals. It is meant to be so. Using stupid games like esquarian ... Million dollar horse that require air conditioning or they can't complete. How many country can afford this "sport". And oh.. .. sport that they are good at they will have a hundred events. How about having 20 events for table tennis. Oh no no no. Change the rules to slow it down so that Anglos can see the ball... How about including some Asian sport like Martial arts and make it 100 events.

And if them Anglos still can't get ahead they will all quit and start a new "international" game call democracy games or human rights games.

They just can't lose.

Well, based on statistics You will not be getting any.

Since the forthcoming Olympics are the Winter kind, it will be even more difficult.
The Winter Olympics were of course introduced as a snub to third world countries, which cannot even afford a nice coating of snow every once in a while.

 

[TaiShang]

'I'll Destroy All Russian Olympic Sports for Next 5 Years' - Shocking Statements of a Runaway WADA Informant

The entire Russia doping case rests on the testimony of this former psychiatric patient (who sounds like he's been released prematurely)

RT




The WADA informant who accused Russia of state-sanctioned athletic doping said that he "does not care about the fight against doping" in a video released by a Russian TV channel. The fate of Team Russia's participation in the 2018 Olympics is to be decided on Tuesday.

On December 2, Russia's NTV aired extracts from three different videos purportedly showing the former Moscow anti-doping lab chief, Grigory Rodchenkov, making a series of shocking statements. In one video, a man who strongly resembles Rodchenkov admits that he "does not care about the fight against doping."

In another clip, the same man says that he's a "terrible person" who has "sold his soul" - although he was quick to point out that his "price had risen." He goes on to boast that his "expensive" apartment in Los Angeles and latest-model Infiniti "are paid for" in full.

"I'll make sure you have one positive sample of 20,000. I'll make sure I have 100 samples, and I will destroy all Olympic sports of Russia for the next five years!" the person believed to be Rodchenkov declares in one of the videos obtained by NTV. The channel did not elaborate on the details of the videos' origins.

Rodchenkov fled Russia for the US in November 2015. His testimony about alleged misconduct by Russian authorities during the 2014 Sochi Olympics formed the basis for a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report authored by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren. The report, released in July 2016, claims that Russian athletes participated in systematic doping with the full knowledge of the Kremlin.

Acting on McLaren's recommendations, the IOC banned Russian track-and-field athletes from participating in the 2016 Rio Olympics and excluded the entire Russian team from the Paralympics.

In September of this year, a Moscow court ordered Rodchenkov's arrest in absentia. He is wanted on charges of abuse of authority, and Russia is currently seeking his extradition from the US.

Rodchenkov doesn't seem to dispute that he is guilty of serious wrongdoing. "I have [committed] all sins except pedophilia, homosexuality and drug trafficking," Rodchenkov confesses in one of the videos.

Rodchenkov has previously taken credit for developing a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor. He claims he provided the elixir to Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Winter games.

However, in one of the videos released by the NTV, Rodchenkov insists that the recipe for "Duchess," the name of his now-infamous cocktail, actually has American origins. He says the idea came to him after he was inspired by the works of prohormones-industry researcher William Llewellyn.

The person in the video also reveals he "almost killed himself," committing a hara-kiri, and admits he used to be a patient at the Kashchenko psychiatric hospital.

Moscow has repeatedly disputed Rodchenkov's whistleblower status, pointing out that he was actively involved in the crimes he now accuses others of committing. Russia's Investigative Committee said in November that they gathered enough evidence showing that Rodchenkov destroyed the doping tests of athletes in violation of the requirements of the International Standard for Laboratories of the World Anti-Doping Agency, as well as the agency's letters regarding the whereabouts of the samples.

Rodchenkov is enrolled in a witness protection program in the US, according to both Russian and Western media reports.

Pressurized by anti-doping organizations that take Rodchenkov's claims at face value, the IOC will meet on December 5 to decide whether Russian athletes will be allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The International Paralympics Committee (IPC) has already decided to uphold its blanket ban on Russian athletes in the upcoming Winter Paralympics.

Source: RT

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Too unfortunate international sports being politicized. This case is definitely political.

It would be terrific to watch RU-US ice hockey (potential) finals in the Olympics. I guess it would generate huge viewership.

I guess many people will lose interest in watching the games.

 

[Dalit]

Ah, you're part of a disinformation campaign, not an honest person.

We believe you instantly. I hope you catch the sarcasm.

Typical Americans, they doped, received medals and after years, oh i am so sorry. As if nothing happened, but they ban all of a team members for other persons' mistake.

American logic is steaming from their arrogance.

America invented cheating.

Ok. Here we go again. Of course Anglos will get more medals. It is meant to be so. Using stupid games like esquarian ... Million dollar horse that require air conditioning or they can't complete. How many country can afford this "sport". And oh.. .. sport that they are good at they will have a hundred events. How about having 20 events for table tennis. Oh no no no. Change the rules to slow it down so that Anglos can see the ball... How about including some Asian sport like Martial arts and make it 100 events.

And if them Anglos still can't get ahead they will all quit and start a new "international" game call democracy games or human rights games.

They just can't lose.

Let them Anglos hold their white games. The rest should hold their own. Let's give the alt-right its ultimate wish. A divided world where regions are separated through walls. A world where politics, sports, religion, culture and everything else is politicized. Let's see how long the alt-right Anglos survive.

 

[TaiShang]

IOC's Russia ban could rob PyeongChang 2018 of star power

By Yonhap

• Published : Dec 6, 2017 - 18:07
• Updated : Dec 6, 2017 - 18:07

A decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics over state-sponsored doping could rob South Korea's first Winter Games of some much-needed star power.

Following its meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, the IOC's Executive Board announced it would suspend the Russian Olympic Committee, effective immediately. The IOC added that individual Russian athletes would still be allowed to compete as neutrals, provided that they meet strict conditions. Their uniforms will bear the Olympic Flag, and the Olympic Anthem, not the Russian anthem, will be played in medal ceremonies if they win gold.

Though it wasn't a blanket ban on Russia, the decision may still prompt the country to instruct or encourage its athletes to boycott PyeongChang 2018 altogether.

In this Associated Press photo taken Feb. 7, 2014, members of the Russian delegation enter Fisht Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics over state-sponsored doping on Dec. 5, 2017, allowing only a select few athletes to compete as neutrals if they meet strict conditions. (Yonhap)

Russia has been a strong Winter Olympic presence across the board for years, and a boycott would deal a blow to PyeongChang 2018 in terms of ticket sales and TV ratings. And PyeongChang has already been struggling to draw attention to the majority of events, except for a few sports such as short track speed skating and figure skating.

And South Korean fans also won't get to see perhaps the most recognizable Russian athlete: short track speed skater Victor An.

Born Ahn Hyun-soo in South Korea, the skater acquired Russian passport in 2011 and competed for his adopted country at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He won three gold medals, becoming the first Russian to win an Olympic short track title in the process. His homecoming of sorts to PyeongChang could also be the last Olympic hurrah for the 32-year-old. An won three gold medals for South Korea at the 2006 Olympics and is among the most decorated Winter Olympians in history.

Teen figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva is a gold medal favorite in the ladies' singles in PyeongChang, but now the question is whether she will even compete at all.

The 18-year-old addressed the IOC's Executive Board before the decision was announced, explaining how she couldn't bring herself to compete as a neutral athlete if it came to that.

But after the ban was handed down, Medvedeva didn't commit one way or the other and said the question of whether she would skip the Olympics entirely or compete as a neutral was premature.

The men's hockey tournament could suffer serious repercussions without Russian players. It's already taken a hit with the decision by the National Hockey League not to send its players to the competition, which falls in the middle of the professional season, and a boycott by Russia would further take away what little glitter was left on the competition.

The Kontinental Hockey League, viewed as the world's second-best circuit behind the NHL, has threatened to withdraw all its players from PyeongChang. Without the NHL, medal contenders such as Canada and the United States were planning to pick KHL players -- some of them former NHL regulars -- for the Olympics. The KHL's absence would mean even less interest in what is usually the marquee event of the Winter Olympics.

Meanwhile, neither the presence of neutral athletes from Russia nor a boycott are likely to have much impact on host South Korea's medal prospects.

In short track speed skating, Victor An's absence may make life easier for South Korean men, although Russia as a team didn't fare particularly well during the International Skating Union World Cup races.

In the men's hockey tournament, South Korea is paired with Canada, the Czech Republic and Switzerland in Group A. With or without NHL or KHL players, South Korea, the lowest-ranked nation in the group at No. 21, will still be the underdog against all three opponents.

In figure skating, South Korea will send two athletes to the ladies' singles and one each to the men's singles and ice dance, but the lack of Russian competitors doesn't mean the host country will be considered medal favorites for any of these events. (Yonhap)

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171206000955