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Ban Russian Track And Field Athletes From 2016 Olympics, Commission Urges
When it comes to Russia, the Obama administration's strategy has been a simple one: isolate Putin and hope that, in isolation from capital markets, the Russian leader cries Uncle. Instead what that policy track unleashed was an expansion of Russian diplomatic channels around the globe, most notably with China, leading to such outcomes as Russian bonds being issued in Renminbi, and an expansion of Russian-China energy infrastructure projects. And while the plunge in oil prices has had a far more adverse impact on the Russian economy (as it has on the US shale sector), so far Russia has shown remarkable resilience to western attempts to isolate it in the financial world.
In short, the US strategy of isolating Russia has so far failed.
But while the Obama administration may have failed in "ring-fencing" Russia's economy, it certainly would not stop there, and the next arena where Russia is set to be punished by the "western democracies" is precisely that, in the actual arena of sports.
According to the WSJ, an "independent" commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency has found that Russia engaged in state-sponsored doping and more importantly, recommended that Russia’s track and field athletes be suspended from Olympic competition in 2016.
Reuters adds that a co-author of the commission report, Richard McLaren, said at the weekend its investigation showed a whole different scale of corruption in causing "significant changes to actual results and final standings of international athletics competitions." The scandal revolves around accusations that money was demanded from top athletes to 'bury' medical tests showing drug use.
Richard W. Pound (L), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Founding President
and former IOC Vice President speaks next to Guenter Younger, Head of
Department Cybercrime with Bavarian Landeskriminalamt (LKA) during a
news conference on the WADA Independent Commission report on findings
of investigation into allegations of widespread doping in sport in Geneva,
Switzerland November 9, 2015.
Russia is a traditional powerhouse of athletics and finished second behind the United states in the medal table at the 2012 Olympics, with 17 medals, eight of them gold. In the event that IAAF were to adopt the commission's recommendation, Russia could be excluded from major competitions including the Olympics and Europan Championships.
In effect what the agency recommends is simply to bar the largest group of Russian athletes from international competition.
To be sure, the WSJ adds that the move would be among the most drastic taken against a national sports federation. According to a report released Monday, Russia took part in a systemic, and state-sponsored doping program for several years, including in the run-up to the Sochi Games.
The commission’s investigation was focused on track and field, but its findings on the corruption of Russia’s antidoping organization and its Ministry of Sport suggested that other sports were involved.
“The IC has found that not only was leadership in the fight against doping in sport lacking, but also that there were organized efforts on the part of many senior coaches and officials, inside and outside Russia, to promote doping and make it possible for such efforts to be successful, including the coverup of certain positive cases of doping,” the report stated.
Which is odd when one considers that even a casual glance among the top 10 doping scandals of all time, reveals that at least half are due to US athletes such as Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Justin Gatlin, Kelli White, Regina Jacobs, Eddy Hellebuyck, and so on.
The scandal could prove as damaging to world athletics as the corruption affair now shaking soccer's world governing body FIFA, where president Sepp Blatter has been suspended and 14 officials and marketing executives indicted on corruption charges.
So let's focus on the Russians.
The "Independent" commission was led by former WADA President, Canadian Dick Pound. Joining him on the commission was Richard McLaren, another Canadian lawyer and a long-standing member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as well as Günter Younger, head of department of cybercrime with Bavarian Landeskriminalamt.
So two Canadians and a German made up an "independent" commission that now wants to bar Russia from the marquee event of the upcoming olympics.
Their recommendation: "For 2016 our recommendation is the Russian federation be suspended,” Mr. Pound said. “Our hopes is that they will accept that.”
What did they find? Well, nobody actually knows as the results are not public. Just take their objective word.
The commission was formed in December of last year and delivered the majority of its findings on Monday. Speaking in a news conference to discuss the results, Mr. Pound said, “It’s worse than we thought, it has the effect unlike other forms of corruption in affecting athletes in the field of play.”
Mr. Pound said the commission is withholding the results of its findings with regard to alleged corruption within the International Association of Athletics Federations, the global governing body of track & field, as the findings of that probe have been turned over to Interpol for review.
Among the report's allegations is that Russian security services interfered with the Moscow doping lab ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of a conspiracy that involved all levels of Russian sport. During the Sochi Games, Russia pulled off a stunning turnaround from its performance in Vancouver in 2010, where it won 3 gold medals and 15 overall. In 2014 Russia won 13 gold medals and 33 overall, an unprecedented level of improvement.
In other words, just like the world "suddenly" realized FIFA was a hotbed of corruption when it had been clear to everyone for decades, so suddenly now the IOC, which is just as corrupt and criminal as FIFA, has decided to redirect attention from itself and to focus on Russia, killing two birds with one stone, further "isolating" Putin, this time from an activity that actually does matter to most Russians.
That said, considering the 2016 Olympics will be held in Brazil which is at this point in an all out stagflationary depression, and where the athletes are literally swimming in shit, assuming that Rio doesn't cancel the games altogether, this just may be the best possible news for the Russian athletes.
Officials in Moscow had no immediate comment.
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Just another example of controlled USSA puppets playing their filthy games against Russia. Makes me sick to my stomach, to feel that such disgusting examples of traitors are appointed to 'govern' the sheeple. We need to revolt, NOW.
Pick the worst thing you can do and then follow it to the bitter end...it's tradition.....
More USSA state department idiots playing manipulation gmaes to isolate Russia, as she throws Amerika out of the Middle East! What a bunch of losers! I feel so ashamed to be led by people of such poor quality.
Lest we forget.....
Canadian Dick Pound
Is that their new currency or a WWE move?
We're independant goy, trust us.
The more important point is will men who think they are women be allowed to compete as women? Go Caitlyn!
What I love about Ivan Drago vs Rocky, is, to get the audience on Rocky's side, they actually showed Rocky training using Russian (rustic) methods, and Drago using high technology, 'specialized equipment', monitored by scientists, American methods!
LOL, 80s Hollywood propaganda! Got to love it! Even today, you will hear American (MMA) fans wonder "How much better would this Russian fighter have been, if only he had access to American gyms, and coaches!"
"Dick Pound can pound sand."
-Svetlana (who would crush him like grape)
THE "Dick Pound" is a porno actor.
Who is this Canadian fool?
Enforcement of drug bans will decimate our football and baseballs teams.
Oh yeah, not to mention the 30 Billion dollar industry of "fantasy football."
"Fantasy football" - there's even teevee shows about people playing that shit. Whatever happened to reading a book and doing things and attaining knowledge and such... I know, I know, the first sentence contains the answer: teevee.
These "Draft Kings" commercials and whatnot, portraying < 80 IQ dolts as champions of society for winning their lottery in this new lottery system... "you are can be champyun 2 bro!!!"... how low we have sunk.
It might be time for a certain Eurasian country to lay in a ton or two of Polonium.
Hey! Where's the pic of CJ Hunter? Flo Jo? She woofed down so much dope her body just gave in. Tyson Gay? Justin Gatlin?
BTW, Ben Johnson was Canadian. Throw that one back in.
I guess you didn't want to photo any baseball players cause of course you'd need a Yearbook.
Go with good workout videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtQ4K-evBo
Then you won't need drugs...but you may not complete your workout.
"I must break you."
- Vladimir
The most importnat part of this story is that there exists a guy named "Dick Pound"
i say screw the whole 2016 Olympics...replace them with this : Bathhouse Barry vs. Vlad Putin , live televised cage-match, UFC rules ... two men (well, kinda...) enter, one man leaves. No teleprompters allowed.
With undercard of Hillary vs. starving grizzly bear.
Genetically modified USA Negroes
Chemically enhanced Russians
Who ya got?
I got one Lance Armstrong and a pair of Clemens & McGwires for ya. Plenty of USA Genetically Modified Pink Toes to go around ape.
ukrainian flag symbolizes a lake of pee under the blue sky
thanks - I always wandered what the yellow is about. This clears it fully!
The top one advertising Toyota - the ISIS head-chopper No. 1 vehicle supplier of choice.
Well done OJ. I logged in just to see if I could be the first to make a Dick Pound comment. But I cannot top that one. Spit my coffee everywhere...
You can add Flo Jo to that list as well. She was a freak of nature and looked like one. Sadly, she died young from taking all those drugs.
Why people are down voting you for speaking the truth about Americans caught cheating is a new low here.
Let us not forget who does State sponsored Terrorism and has not been banned from any world bodies but rather gets prizes and medals and keeps them.
This particular "News Article" made front-page news in Australia this morning. Lots of "Informed Opinion", all following EXACTLY the same narrative no matter which source one turns to (on-line MSM, TV, Radio), all parrotting the "Ban Russia" meme.
No doubt you will NOT be surprised to hear that the majority of (presumably intelligent) Clinicians I work with regard the downing of the Russian flight as "payback for their downing of MH-17".
New Zealand may be "The Country of Sheep", but I'm forming the strong opinion that Australia is the "Country of Sheeple" . . . . .
I used to roadbike long distances as a lighter-weight substitute for marathon training. Watched all seven of the Tour de Farce victories that Lance Dopestrong 'acheived,' and considered it good motivational video, kinda like watching skateboard videos before you go skateboarding. The USPS team was fun to watch early on. Too bad it's all a sham.
You can't fake skateboard tricks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOVTtPZm3U
Because the United States Postal Service had tens of millions of dollars to piss away on advertising...in Europe.
Indeed, they went to town on the advertising, and *sigh* they had the best lookin' jerseys too (never bought one). Different times of the same company that would bring itself to manufactured 'crisis' by guaranteeing the funding of 75 future years of employee pensions.
Enjoy a classic cycling "fight" (lol):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eArlm3ukbVs
What!? What is big deal!? So Russian athlete is occassionally enjoy small cocktail of HGH or Steroid. No big deal, is beat krap out of other nation anyway, so why is making fuss!?
Vodka, OJ, and a splash of HGH turns screwdriver into jackhammer.
OJ and hard drink does not it mix well, particularly when is search for stolen sports paraphenalia in Vegas hotel room.
Add a pistol whipping in and it works fine.
A misunderstanding, OJ was heroically confiscating sports paraphernalia before it could be used to commit murders.
OJ + Hard Drink = misunderstanding. Guarantee that emotionally disregulated angrified washup athlete/actor is misunderstand.
Vodka, OJ and coffee turns into a screw Mrs Olsen...
Since sucking a Puutie nutbuster does not cause you any problems, I expect you will survive very well should you be able to leave Russia. How is the cabbage supply holding up as winter starts?
FUCK YOU DICK POUND!
"Canadian Dick Pound?"
Seriously? That sounds like slang.
"Mudsharks love the Canadian Dick Pound."
pods
They call me Dick Avoirdupois Ounce around these parts.
Waste of a perfectly good porn name.
beat me to it
there are plenty of other cute porn names to choose from ! Dick Steele, Dick Fitzwell, Dick Hirtz , Dick Pooler, to name a few.
Always liked Dick Silver.
I concur. "Pulling At Straws" is a term which comes to mind.
Oh yeah. This is gonna work wonders.
Just like last Olympic boycott
And when Mr Peanut re-instituted the draft to scare the Rooskies into submission
sigh
Ironically, Carter kept the USA out of the Olympics then over Russia's invasion of Afghanistan.
Correction, Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. Soviet Union is not Russia.
Oops, thanks. And the USSR returned the favor in 1984.
So much for international cooperation and good will.
Soviet did not invade. Soviet was already present, building schools, infrastructure, enforcing women's rights
Look old photos online of Kabul normal life and education....Soviet only intervened after moderate leader murdered and overthrow by outside backed radicals. There is much more than MSM version.
Better know from the normal moderate side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2KeSkl5H0
++
That little bullshit action from Carter literally ruined the athletic careers of many in the U.S. - at least as it pertains to worthy competition. A 12 year swing that for all but the youngest, put them out of competition with the Russians for good. Never forgave those fuckers for pulling that 'high-road' political bullshit and royally Fucking the American athletes over. And to top it off, over precisely the 'Exceptional' Hypocrisy as you pointed out...
Sure. NOTHING is more important than the careers of American Athletes.
Wanker.
The summer boycott in '84 netted me and my fellow lifeguards free McDonalds all summer as the USSA won 70% of the events.
The summer of bowel discontent.
That was a fantastic promo... probably took 10 years off my life...
Can someone say "Tantrum"
Or state department losers like the repulsively disgusting Noodleman/Nuland.
Fuck these people. Clearly the west has an agenda, and they won't be happy until they drag us into war. Speaking of ridiculous, the lunatics are running the asylum in Missouri:
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESIDENT LEAVES OVER RACE COMPLAINTS
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNIVERSITY_OF_MISSOURI_TURMOIL...
I read that. Full Fuckan Retard....
Man those people are really animated. Sounds like the Yale broad who got sand in her vagina about Halloween costumes.
So glad I am done with school.
pods
I thought Missouri was an asylum.
Nice how you only want people get pissed about what YOU want them to get pissed about.
Reminds me of one of my favorite movies--PCU with David Spade and Jeremy Piven.
Wonder if any frat will throw a party with that band...."Everyone gets laid".
Moscow will just host the Chemical Games 2016. No substances barred, and sell tickets only in Rubles or RMB.
That would be great! At least something open and honest - not like the western bullshit and idiotic hypocracy.
I am surprised that they did not reccomend Ben Johnston and Marion Jones should get their medals reinstated
There isn't a single world class athlete around today who isn't using drugs. Period. All that matters is will they get caught.
In 2000 I was in the US watching the Sydney olympics on tv. But I was reading the news updates on australian newspapers online. The two didn't match up in terms of drug reporting. When the romanian athletes exited their dorms in the olympic village the cleaners found 52 empty syringes. One of the cleaners cut her finger on a used syringe. There were 10 US athletes who were under investigation from the olympic drug body who shouldn't have been competing. The list went on. None of that was reported in the US media.
Exactly. All the athletes do it, so why don't we just legalize 'doping' and be done with it.
Then the whole charade would come tumbling down. Can't have that.
pods
Yes, we can.
SHUT.IT.DOWN.
The facts bear this out. Taking steroids, growth hormones and blood doping works.
"Before the 1988 season, Griffith Joyner’s best 100 meter time was 10.96 seconds not even in the then best 40 marks of all time. In 1988 she improved that by 0.47 seconds, a time that no one has approached since. Similarly, her pre-1988 best at 200 meters was 21.96, a mark not in the top 20 runs on the all-time list. In 1988 she improved that by 0.67 seconds, another time which has not been approached. Griffith-Joyner attributed the change in her physique to new health programs."
Flo Jo's records are a clear example of drug abuse. She died at 38 from taking the toxic brew that turned her into a running machine. She still holds the World and Olympic records in the womens 100 and 200 meters.
Wow, that's the equivalent of running a 4-minute mile in 3:45 -- what FloJo did in only four years took distance runners almost fifty years to improve by that much.
Dick Pound should stop pounding his dick.
"Russia is a traditional powerhouse of athletics and finished second behind the United states"
So I guess we won't look at who came in first....nope, no need to ban the US from the games, we all know the USA would never cheat.
We often forget the whole thing:
"“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Stupid people that is.
Most elite athletes dope. They have to since sports and athletics have been made so important. Top track and field athletes can make in the millions. There is huge money in being the fastest, stongest or best in an athletic endeavor. In the US sports are being pushed very hard especially the millitaristic NFL. Bread and circuses I guess. And IOC, the NCAA and most governing bodies know that the athletes dope but they put on a front in order to keep people thinking that amateur sports are honest and that the best guy always wins.
This could hurt if they could actually pull this off since the russians have the best heavyweight boxers; they are a small bright spot in the blight that has taken over the higher weight class boxing. I can't bring myself to pay even portion of the PPV fee's charged to see a couple of pipsqueek boxers dance around the ring in their oversized shorts. But that's what pro boxing is today and it sickens me. Too old and sissy to get in to the other types of fighting -- someone is going to get killed one day.
I'll just make a league that allows all althetes dosed up to high balls and compete.
1. It will be very interesting to see how much these drugs can push human abilities and their side-effects.
2. More money push into drug research
3. Eliminate the anti-doping agency
Bunch of fakes purposefully causing aggression to further hostilities. Same playbook terrible actors.
Dick Pound ...... can't make this shit up
Ben Johnson was a 'Canadian', and a cheater and he did it all under Dick Pound's helm at the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Any wonder Putin is paranoid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ux3oiWELIQ
Double
Any activity that creates overnight wealth and power is a supermagnet for corruption. No surprise that anybody--Russian, American, or Hottentot (h/t Harry S Truman) is cheating in any way they can get away with.
What does surprise me is that any of you actually care about such a ridiculous, staged, state-sponsored spectacle designed to distract you from the rot eating away at every society on Earth. Every one of them. US, Russia, EU, China, and every fucking where else.
Trying to weigh whether this cheating is justified by that cheating or that this cheating isn't proven while that one is does nothing more than distract you from the fact that every player in the system is rotten to the core and needs to be done away with.
Would a "clean" Olympics enhance your life any more than a "dirty" one? Does the fact, and it is a fact, that the Russians cheat make any more or less difference than the fact that the Americans and Chinese and Europeans and Africans and South Americans, et al cheat?
You want an honest sporting event? Have everyone show up two weeks early, dress in the same clothes and use the exact same equipment as provided by the organizers, eat the same food in locked dormitories subject to 24/7 publicly-streamed video feeds of every corner of the place, and be denied any outside access or contact until the games are over. Call them the Global Prison Games-- which is more of a reflection of the true religion of the organizers than any simpering over this faked-up paean to the glory of sport.
tarabel
Does that include Silicon Valley?
Surely Silicone Valley if we are talking about Dick Pound?
The World Anti Doping Agency
They need to examine Vichy D.C.
Plenty of Dopes to Dick Pound there...
---> Very intresting, tell me more about Russia
---> Who the f*ck acare about Russia? Why should I care?
go away then...
1 week 4 days? Trainee hasbara tool?
Russia dominated 2014 Winter Olynpics while population half of US...
this another example sore weak losers fight underhanded political methods..butthurt hypocritics
who pays/bribes these characters?
This is a red meat, click bait article for ZH Consumption.
If they are saying that Russia does not participate in the drug testing/data gathering, then say so and ban them for that. If they are saying that no data exists, then they cannot ban.
Who writes this crap?
nothing like a Russian woman athlete with big balls
just sayn
I bet Dick Pound is just mad because the Canadian athletes can no longer use the Ross Rebagliati doping method.
I know for a fact that the Curling teams are doping during the winter olympics.
HH - you forgot Carl Lewis
I'd rather look good than feel good.
Make it all legal and tax it.
Hmm... no one could have seen this coming. /SARC.
Zero credibility.
It's reverse 1979.
http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/qfp/104481.htm
Soon all these corrupt Western organizations will be replaced by Chinese - Russian organizations...
hey, the TPP may be signed, but it hasn't been ratified yet!
Next Russia will be banned from access porn websites.
People even care about the Olympics?
If I was a Russian I would ban myself from the Olympics to avoid heart attack from the ongoing Cesium releases from Fukushima NPP. Just my two cents.
Wow. The West is desperate.
In the last few days, they have tried to take over the A321 investigation, leaking conclusions from anonymous governmental officials, the US Secretary of Defense has accused Russia of "nuclear sabre rattling", and today we hear that the West wants Russia banned from next year's games in Brazil.
All to make the Russian people lose confidence in Putin, whose approval ratings stand near 90%.
"oh what tangled web we weave" Pound Dick Dick pound... "sweet Caroline" "sweet Caroline" "sweet Caroline"
Most experts point out Michael Phelps' facial features are consistent with the abuse of HGH (growth hormone). These include:
- Soft tissue swelling visibly resulting in enlargement of the hands, feet, nose, lips and ears, and a general thickening of the skin
- Soft tissue swelling of internal organs, notably the heart with attendant weaking of its muscularity, and the kidneys, also the vocal cords resulting in a characteristic thick, deep voice and slowing of speech
- Generalized expansion of the skull at the fontanelle
- Pronounced brow protrusion, often with ocular distension
- Pronounced lower jaw protrusion with attendant macroglossia and teeth gapping
Remember Phelps started swimming when he was 10, and that he rapidly acquired competition level. Special training to bring him to the Sidney Olympic Games followed, and it is not crazy to assume someone experimented on him during this growth period with HGH. You can search information and pictures on acromegaly, a disease related to the abnormal production of HGH, and see that Phelps does indeed boast the typical features.
It would be hard to tell if he is still using any type of performance enhancing drugs, but use of HGH, at least during his growing years, is almost guaranteed. Being tall and having huge hands and feet would indeed represent an advantage for a swimmer already.
Those guys look like they need a fix real bad.
Am I not the only one who doesn't watch nor care about the olympics? Maybe people in Russia have better things to do.
Dick Pound suffers from penis envy. Specifically, Caitlyn Jenner's.
Ba-da-bing!
Thank god the other guys name wasn't Mike Hunt. Can you just see the commission lead by Dick Pound, Mike Hunt and Buster Hyman. Try and hold a straight face at that press conference.
Still too funny. The ladies must love him ;-)
John Thomas works in the UK.
If you don't want to compete against Russians, stay your own ass home. This kind of petty aggression is embarrassing.
"Russia good. West bad."
Vladimir Putin, you're so dreamy . . . .
What about the Williams brothers ?
Please don't tell me that the Canadian running this commission has the name of "DICK POUND"! The Russians are all laughing.
If they really ban Russians from this, all it will do is to reinfornce Putin's ratings, as it will confirm the current opinions of most Russians that Americans hate them and want to wage war on them. But Russians already know they are at war. Look at their commemoration of the beginnings of WWII. Look at the children even. It is as if they know that the war for survival is on again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3tiYD9niFY&spfreload=10
if you took a vote of all countries at the Olympics - the U.S. would be the one that gets banned!
I can't see Rocky IV without laughing until pain in my stomach. This is a so funny comedy. Not only because of a non-russian last name of Ivan and his non-russian look. All of this hi tech training stuff and super drugs are so ridiculous. I always remember our boxing group with shabby gloves and old battered bags. In fact, Rocky's gym was a dream for us.
Better to ban the US government, which is the global aggressor.
This is what happens when the world is run by a bunch of illogical psychopaths. And we hear it from a bunch of morons who claim to be elite of the World and crème de la crème. Very sad state of affairs for the planet.
Dozens of other countries are up to the same thing. This is just a further attempt to Isolate the Russians.
Does Dick Pound know Dick Hurts from Holden?