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Title should say Russia has been banned from 2018 Winter Games. What a stain on the competition and elite sports! Reason: state-organized manipulation of urine
by mkempe 9y ago
Title should say Russia has been banned from 2018 Winter Games. What a stain on the competition and elite sports!
Reason: state-organized manipulation of urine samples in Olympic testing labs during the 2014 Games in Sochi. The facts were mostly known a year ago; the punishment aimed at Russia is new, just a few months ahead of the Games in South Korea.
- eropple 9y agoTo be clear, what is the "stain" you speak of? The ban or the cheating?
- cholantesh 9y agoThe insufficient bribes.
- mkempe 9y agoBoth. First any cheating athlete of course, and second the IOC having to ban an entire nation. I'm sure there are many current Russian athletes who had nothing to do with the doping scandal. I'm going to miss the Russian ice-hockey team and figure skaters, for instance.
- jonknee 9y agoIt might not work for hockey, but individual Russian athletes can lobby for the right to compete: > In barring Russia’s team, Olympic officials left the door open for some Russian athletes. Those with histories of rigorous drug testing may petition for permission to compete in neutral uniforms.
- otakucode 9y agoNot just 2014. The IOC pulled the historical samples of urine kept for exactly this sort of reason and verified extensive cheating across every event, every Olympics, going back to 1967. There has not been an honest Russian competitor in the Olympics during the lifetime of most of the people reading this.
- eropple 9y agoCan you provide a cite for this? I wouldn't be surprised, but I can't find anything at hand.
- mkempe 9y agoThere were no Olympic Games in 1967.
- mkempe 9y agoThere are no such retests going back 50 years. "The IOC can hold the bottles for up to 10 years, and can thaw the urine for a retest any time during that window." [1] After that window, it's gone. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/05/22/how-it-works-a-look-at-the-retests-of-olympic-drug-samples/84741634/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/05/22/ho...
- koolba 9y ago> Title should say Russia has been banned from 2018 Winter Games. What a stain on the competition and elite sports! It would have been but I stuck to the original title at the time I published the link. Looks like NYT has since updated it to "Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C.".