WADA has asked for Russia to be banned from all competitive sports and next year's Olympics due to its systematic doping of athletes, state cover-up and bribery.
It says Russian athletes have to give 5% of their income for doping and cover-ups, the head of the Moscow testing lab has accepted bribes and destroyed test samples, that doctors and coaches enabled doping, that Russia destroyed over 1,400 test samples after being asked to keep them, that Russian secret services (FSB etc) were present in laboratories to intimidate experts, including threatening their families, that Russian athletes were given advanced warning of tests etc.
It also accuses the IAAF, which is worldwide, of knowing about it and doing nothing, probably due to extensive bribery.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/34765444
USSR all over again.
>>55337492
I remember a documentary about all the women athletes in the USSR who ended up becoming men because of all the hormones and other fucked up shit they were taking
Also a couple of years ago two Greek rowers developed acute leukemia within like a month and died quickly, both about 2 months apart.
Who knows what they were taking
Politically motivated bullshit. What are the chances of them actually banning Russia?
>>55338429
> What are the chances of them actually banning Russia?
If Russia gives them the finger and shows no sign of changing the doping culture? Pretty good.
>>55337653
Care to post a little more info? I'd love to read more on this.
Another statistic.
>>55339110
>By the new york times
Opinion disgarded.
>>55339145
The numbers are from WADA. NY Times just made the chart.
Seems like politically motivated bullshit to me.
>>55338876
>>55338876
>>55339390
Well I found this
http://www.ekathimerini.com/151969/article/ekathimerini/sports/second-greek-sportsman-to-die-of-leukemia
If you google there's more results
Russia continuing to show why it is a second world shithole.
just completely abolish any kind of cash prize at the olympics. only cover the travel expenses. also no advertisements. if olympics effectively worked that way 2 thousand years ago, i see no reason why that cannot happen now. while being an athlete should be a possible way to get money (by opening athletic schools), i see no reason why being an exceptional athlete should bring any other reward other than fame and honor.
>>55338537
This would only speed up the inevitable. Anti-doping will never work. There are just too many ways around it. Each time they ban something, a new substitute is found. Even without drugs, there are hyperbolic chambers and all manner of other unnatural systems for giving a nation's or team's athletes an unnatural advantage.
Kicking Russia out would just lead Putin to start his own games, this one with the mission to push human ability as far as possible regardless of if that involves drugs or not. Sooner or later we're going to do this anyway. The huge differences between natural and unnatural development of abilities is growing every year. Why would anyone watch the "natural" Olympics when athletes in the High Performance Games can out run, out jump, and out lift them?
