https://www.news.com.au/sport/olymp...s/news-story/db77eea2fc3370a42300e982943083b2
Really, really couldn't have happened to a nicer sporting country
Really, really couldn't have happened to a nicer sporting country
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I assume IOC and FIFA were told of this before they went public, and they aren't going to reject the WADA ruling. Hard for the IOC to reject it given they provide 50% of WADA's funding, but FIFA's reaction and acceptance will be interesting to watch.https://www.news.com.au/sport/olymp...s/news-story/db77eea2fc3370a42300e982943083b2
Really, really couldn't have happened to a nicer sporting country
Athletes don't go to the FIFA world cup as athletes, but as a team sport. so that is significant.Eh.
the athletes themselves can still compete so not sure what this actually does
I doubt Russia really cares about the banning - I pose this question - Would WADA have banned Russia from the World Cup in 2022 if it was being held in Russia ?
Pity the AFL doesn't play by the world sporting rules. Essendon deserved to be banned.
Excuse my ignorance but why teams only??
Has every team in every sport tested +??
I know clean single atheletes can compete under no flag but the mainstream media hasnt really explained all of this.
Not surprising tbh
Because the ban applies to Russia - the country - not Russian individuals.Excuse my ignorance but why teams only??
Has every team in every sport tested +??
I know clean single atheletes can compete under no flag but the mainstream media hasnt really explained all of this.
Not surprising tbh
Follow the links for some bed time reading (both parts I and II) and you will get your nuumbers. Russia hasn't addressed any of the issues in the report that's why the 4 year ban was issued now not when the report was released.Systematic
Id like to see numbers just out of curiosity
Youd be pissed if you were a team of 4 and completely clean and it was your only event
Systematic
Id like to see numbers just out of curiosity
Youd be pissed if you were a team of 4 and completely clean and it was your only event
The Essendon players were very lucky to only get a 2 year ban backdated.Pity the AFL doesn't play by the world sporting rules. Essendon deserved to be banned.
The Essendon players were very lucky to only get a 2 year ban backdated.
In my opinion the players should have got 4 year bans and Essendon should have been kicked out the comp.
If USADA and the US Government was part of a national level tampering then I'd hope they received similar sanctions, instead I'd warrant a guess that it's left to the individual athletes and teams to do their doping in most countries, and be smart enough not to get caught by their anti-doping agencies.
The Essendon players were very lucky to only get a 2 year ban backdated.
In my opinion the players should have got 4 year bans and Essendon should have been kicked out the comp.
on what basis?
that level of sanction would be unprecedented and completely out of line with other doping sanctions.
I think we agree that the club should have been kicked out the comp as they knew full well what they were doing and in my opinion so did the AFL and that's why they were tipped off when the testers were in town.You do realise the maximum penalty at the time under the WADA code was 2 years right? It has since been revised to be 4, maybe they would have got it if that had been in place at the time, maybe not.
I think we agree that the club should have been kicked out the comp as they knew full well what they were doing and in my opinion so did the AFL and that's why they were tipped off when the testers were in town.
You don't destroy records of what you are injecting into players if you have nothing to hide
Glad to see you agree with me that Essendon knew what they were doing when they destroyed the records of what was injected into the players and that the AFL knew about it, hence why they tipped the Bombers off that the testers were in town.I don't think we agree with this at all; unlike Russia EFC basically cleared out every single party responsible for the administration of the programme that resulted in the player bans. Only a handful of players (who've served their sanctions) remain.
If Russia was to cooperate with WADA as requested then likely they would have avoided the 4 year ban just handed down. But they haven't, because it's a bigger political issue at play for them.
If Essendon had been kicked out of the competition the fans, members and AFL spectators would have suffered most. Not those responsible. Something that foamers seem to miss when getting themselves worked up in to a rage about the whole thing.
USADA went after Armstrong, kept going after him even after Armstrong's legal and financial team got Obama's DoJ to shut down a Grand Jury in February 2012, as Obama didn't want this hanging over the 2012 election.
RUSADA put a hole in the wall to pass piss sample of Russian athletes to FSB officers to swap with clean samples.
The 2 countries doping experiences are completely different. One is state sponsored doping, the other is private sector doping.
Yes up until 2000, when USADA was set up to do anti-doping in USA, the USOC conducted doping tests before the Olympics and hid positive tests of athletes, to make sure they were clean before they went to the Olympics, as revealed by Dr. Wade Exum, director of drug control for the U.S.O.C. from 1991 to 2000 , in 2003, but once again, the USOC is a private organisation and not the US government.
OLYMPICS; Anti-Doping Official Says U.S. Covered Up (Published 2003)
World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound says United States Olympic Committee covered up drug use by athletes, allowing athletes like Carl Lewis to compete after testing positive for banned substances (M)www.nytimes.com
The level of doping in the US probably isn't that much different across all sports than in Russia across all sports, but in the US its not facilitated and/or hidden by the government. Good old private sector doping vs pinko commie bastards doping.
Glad to see you agree with me that Essendon knew what they were doing when they destroyed the records of what was injected into the players and that the AFL knew about it, hence why they tipped the Bombers off that the testers were in town.
I still think the Essendon should have been made an example of and kicked out the comp