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2018 Winter Olympics (yawn)

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Russia banned from Winter Olympics but 'clean' athletes can compete

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Russia has been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea over the country's "systemic manipulation" of anti-doping rules.

However, Russian athletes who can prove that they are clean will be "invited" to compete in Pyeongchang, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.

It is the most wide ranging punishment ever meted out by the IOC on a participating nation, let alone a powerhouse of the Olympic movement.

Russia's Olympic Committee has also been ordered to pay $15 million to reimburse the IOC's costs of investigating the doping scandal and help set up the new Independent Testing Authority (ITA).

Vitaly Mutko -- the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, former Minister of Sport and chairman of the organizing committee for soccer's 2018 World Cup in Russia -- has been barred from attending any future Olympic Games and so has his former deputy, Yuri Nagornykh.

Entire article: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/05/sport/russia-ioc-ruling-intl/index.html
 
ScriptOhio said:
Russia banned from Winter Olympics but 'clean' athletes can compete

171205135932-ioc-board-exlarge-169.jpg


Russia has been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea over the country's "systemic manipulation" of anti-doping rules.

However, Russian athletes who can prove that they are clean will be "invited" to compete in Pyeongchang, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.

It is the most wide ranging punishment ever meted out by the IOC on a participating nation, let alone a powerhouse of the Olympic movement.

Russia's Olympic Committee has also been ordered to pay $15 million to reimburse the IOC's costs of investigating the doping scandal and help set up the new Independent Testing Authority (ITA).

Vitaly Mutko -- the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, former Minister of Sport and chairman of the organizing committee for soccer's 2018 World Cup in Russia -- has been barred from attending any future Olympic Games and so has his former deputy, Yuri Nagornykh.

Entire article: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/05/sport/russia-ioc-ruling-intl/index.html
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At this point I really don't care. Does anyone really believe there is less doping among the US sponsor controlled programs? Why is state sponsored doping more "evil" than corporate sponsored doping? Let them all dope, it's their bodies. Integrity--if there ever was any--is long gone. Why keep up this naive facade?
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
At this point I really don't care. Does anyone really believe there is less doping among the US sponsor controlled programs? Why is state sponsored doping more "evil" than corporate sponsored doping? Let them all dope, it's their bodies. Integrity--if there ever was any--is long gone. Why keep up this naive facade?
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one word: Money

People want to believe that these folks are something that happen because of freak chance genetics and years of training. Not because some fat dude in his basement started pumping his body full of god knows what and bam he’s running 9s flat 100m
 
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AuTX Buckeye said:
one word: Money

People want to believe that these folks are something that happen because of freak chance genetics and years of training. Not because some fat dude in his basement started pumping his body full of god knows what and bam he’s running 9s flat 100m
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Certainly a big part of it; but americans like putting on the big white hat and pretending they're above it all. Which isn't the case. It's not state sponsored but it's just as rampant.
http://bgr.com/2016/08/17/olympics-doping-scandal-data-shows-usa-is-most-prolific-nation/
 
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It was either "Bigger, Strong, Faster" or "Prescription Thugs" (I forget which) where one of the doctors involved in testing athletes for America candidly discusses how Carl Lewis was ineligible for the 1984 or 1988 Olympics, but that politics kept shuffling things around and confusing the issue enough so that he ended up participating. Carl was using some form of speed for his training, but the big boogeyman ended up being Ben Johnson, because he used steroids, and set a world-record in the process. I search the story on the internet and get quotes from Lewis that amount to "So what? Everyone else is, also."
 
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Certainly a big part of it; but americans like putting on the big white hat and pretending they're above it all. Which isn't the case. It's not state sponsored but it's just as rampant.
http://bgr.com/2016/08/17/olympics-doping-scandal-data-shows-usa-is-most-prolific-nation/
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Well, there are a number of caveats in that article and the linked infographic... like, are we really that concerned about a guy who got busted for cannabis?

Of course many/most Olympic sports are rampant with doping, but nothing there (except maybe The cycling stuff) is even close to the scale of Russia's Sochi-nanigans. That "state sponsored" bit is an important distinction.
 
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Buckeye513 said:
I'm not sure why NBC keeps feeling the need to interrupt their brilliant human interest pieces and refreshing commentary with people doing sports.
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This is the biggest problem with big time differences...when the events aren’t live, NBullshitC can show their soap operas instead. At least it isn’t sanctimonious twatmuffle Bob Costas this time.
 
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