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.
the Russian propaganda wheels are already turning
If you can't see the difference between the Essendon case and what Russia was doing then I'm really not sure you have any business continuing to try to make this a thing.
Individual athletes can compete under no flag; teams cannot.
Because the ban applies to Russia - the country - not Russian individuals.
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.
As in the Russian government conspired to tamper with doping samples and the lab itself and RUSADA was complicit, so the penalty is that until such time as WADA is satisfied that Russia and RUSADA are operating completely transparently they've continued to outright ban any Russian team from competing.
The Essendon players were very lucky to only get a 2 year ban backdated.
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.
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.
on what basis?
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.
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.
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.
Agreed; most major US sports don't even abide by the WADA code so we wouldn't have a clue what they get away with, USADA at least appears to make some efforts to pursue dopers instead of cover for them.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.
That was not at all what I said. EFC is not an all inclusive entity. The vast majority of staff and members have no idea what occurs, and there's plenty of posts on this forum that suggests even those connected with the programme didn't fully know what Dank was administering.
