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Russian Track And Field Athletes Banned From International Competition
Earlier this week, the “independent” anti-doping commission WADA 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. Apparently, the corruption was “on a whole different scale” that involved extorting athletes and ultimately ended up "significantly changing the actual results and final standings of international athletics competitions."
The report includes allegations 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.
As we noted on Monday, “in the event that IAAF were to adopt the commission's recommendation, Russia could be excluded from major competitions including the Olympics.”
Well, as it turns out, that’s exactly what happened because as WSJ reports, “track and field’s world governing body provisionally suspended Russia’s athletes from international competition indefinitely,” late on Friday evening. Here’s more:
The suspension, which was expected, was approved by a vote of 22 to 1 by the international federation’s ruling council and takes effect immediately. It will prevent Russian track-and-field athletes from participating in all international events, including—as of now—the 2016 Rio Olympics in August.
While condemning the Russians, Sebastian Coe, the newly elected president of the IAAF, said the federation had to work to fix a broken system.
“We discussed and agreed that the whole system has failed the athletes, not just in Russia, but around the world,” Mr. Coe’s statement read. “This has been a shameful wake-up call and we are clear that cheating at any level will not be tolerated.”
The Russians will be able to appeal, possibly in time to win back the “privilege” of competing in beautiful Rio where hopefully, the scent of feces will no longer linger in the air by the time the games roll around (of course giant public works projects don’t look to be in the cards given Brazil’s insistence on running a primary surplus):
However, as often happens in international sports when countries or teams are sanctioned, the International Association of Athletics Federations will set terms for what the Russians must do to have the suspension lifted, perhaps even in time for the Rio Olympics.
The Russian federation can appeal the ban during the next month, with a ruling coming shortly after that. The federation could also take its case to the international Court of Arbitration for Sport.
For their part, the Russians have taken steps to “clean up” the situation, while Putin and several individual athletes claim the ban punishes all of the nation's participants for the actions of a few bad actors:
Russian officials have urged international authorities not to punish a broad swath of athletes for the sins of a smaller group. President Vladimir Putin called on Russian authorities to hold people personally responsible rather than making innocent athletes pay for the wrongdoing of others.
Russian pole-vaulting champion Yelena Isinbayeva, who has won two Olympic gold medals, called the situation sad in a statement released Friday by the All-Russia Athletics Federation.
“The situation that the Russian team has ended up in is sad. But I urge against painting all athletes with the same brush,” Ms. Isinbayeva said, describing all of her own victories as honest, clean and deserved. “Taking away the right of innocent and uninvolved athletes to participate in international competitions under the auspices of the IAAF and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is unjust and unfair.”
Of course this is just another example of the fox guarding the hen house. As WSJ goes on to point out, it was just last week when French authorities unveiled an nvestigation into the IAAF’s recently retired leadership, including its former president for various alleged criminal behavior including accepting bribes to cover up Russian doping results.
And if they were doing that, then who knows what else they were doing which in turn means that yes, this was probably exaclty what the Russians said it was initially, which is politically motivated move that's inextricably related to a variety of geopolitical issues and you can probably put in the same file as the deliberate suppression of oil prices by the Saudis, economic sanctions, and the anti-trust suit against Gazprom.
That's not to say there wasn't doping going on here, but just like all organizational corruption, everyone has something on everyone else and it's just a matter of politics when someone's card gets pulled.
In a supremely amusing bit of irony, The Guardian notes that in 1980, the abovementioned Sebastian Coe "a charismatic, supremely talented runner but yet to win a major championship medal, was approached privately by the British government and asked to boycott the Moscow Olympics in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Coe refused. He went to Russia. He won gold, ignited his own personal legend and has ridden the wave ever since."
History may not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.
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Anna Kournikova vs Serena Williams...who's the dope?
Bombshell vs. roided up he-she. Next.
Anything to bring people back to thinking the Old Soviet Empire is back, when it's the opposite. Where's the breadlines?
I smell the stench of the USSA's dirty tactics at play in this decision. No wonder most of the world hates Amerika. They don't hate us for our freedoms (what freedoms?), they hate us for our foreign policy.
This another example of US behaviour when not getting its way every time. Petulant throws the tantrum like scorned 16-years-old girl.
It's actually a great example of Russian behavior - blaming everybody else for their own failures.
That's exactly how Putin stays popular in Russia - by telling Russians that their poverty and diminished national stature is all somebody else's fault.
But Dolf Lundgren is Swedish...
The Russians will get along just fine without the F’n Olympics..
Send them all down to Sochi to compete amongst themselves and have a good time.
What a bunch of fucking HYPOCRISY. The US did this in the 80s, and probably still are.
Watch the 30 on 30 documentary on Ben Johnson, the canadian sprinter who got caught doping. An expert said he was hired by the US olympic committee to reform their testing, but he was conned -- they used him to find out HOW TO GET AWAY WITH DOPING and cheat the tests.
In that video the doctor explains how growth hormone makes a person's jaw grow, and their teeth get crooked. Watch for athletes wearing braces on their teeth. The very next scene is Carl Lewis WEARING BRACES explaining how shocked he was that Ben Johnson would cheat.
The truth is they all know how to cheat and get away with it. All you have to do is use it for training, then stop 30 days before competition. Then your system will be clear of drugs. They all do this. Don't be fooled.
Very slighly off-thread, but another example of Western "Russia-bashing" - this (Nov 11th this year, note)
http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/see-the-stomach-churning-tugboat-effort-to-take-a-russian-aircraft-carrier-under-tow/story-fnpjxnlk-1227604270052?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=technology
Note the DATE of the failure = 2012, so not exactly "current info" is it. Note also the almost non-existent Aussie MSM coverage of the Russian cruise missile success in Syria (apart from peddling the fiction that "four crashed" - a fiction that has since been thoroughly disproven).
THIS is the level of propaganda the average, non-thinking Aussie is subjected to day in, day out. Along with the literally saturation coverage of the Gallipoli cock-up (which cost the warmonger Churchill his Cabinet position). Funny how he managed to "rise to power" yet again, isn't it. Pays to have the right connections . . . . .
Read / listen to / research online ALL the Aussie MSM, and the absolutely consistent message is "Russia = BAD, America = GOOD". All major mistakes / deliberate war crimes perpetrated by America / NATO are VERY quickly swept from the front page (if they ever made it). Minor, or more usually, "fabricated" "War Crimes" by Russia - beaten to death, full-media coverage ad nauseam.
Lack of response from Russia seems to be accepted here as an indication of weakness; even the most cursory review of history tells an entirely different story. Russia has nothing to gain by attacking the West, but the West will eventually attack. That is when we will all find out how "weak" Russia is. That is when the course of Global history will change forever.
Australians are a prime example of the moral midgetry sweeping the west.
Willfull ignorance, mean spiritedness, disdain for kindness and compassion.
An entire national culture that confuses kindness with weakness.
Notice the publication date - "Remebrance Day", and "Down Under" we have a really BIG thing about this. Everyone stops, we get the bugler tootling his horn over the Hospital PA - the full works. TOTAL indoctrination of course.
Something that never gets coverage (and I may assure you is completely unknown to the vast majority of Aussies) - the figure of 16,825,000 (Russian WW2 casualties), and bearing in mind the Aussie support for US adventurism vs. China - their WW2 toll of 20 million . . . . . .
The other rather nasty (and very predominant) Aussie mindset is that of "I'm all right Mate, F**k everyone else" - exemplified by our less than stellar driving "skills", in a Country with some of the best driving conditions in the World.
Diminish national stature...!? Amerika is poster child. Walk through Wal*Mart and you are not think it otherwise:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
We need a Wal*Mart trailer trash and electric cart fat-ass special olympics.
I might tune in for that one.
And you left only whine on.
Jimmy Carter Redux, Amerikansky petiness.
Exactly right, and its so, i dont know, juvenile.
Obvous whos behind it.. what a joke
And what, they're gonna ban ALL the Russian athletes?
Last Olympics... London small businesses banned from using Olympic logos due to "copyright breach." Total monopolistic asshattery. Let's see them enforce that in Rio. Fucken wankers...
Fuck the Olympics.
One one had you have dopefags, and on the other you have little and big countries all over the world with aspiring 'athletes' from all walks of sport, dedicating entire lives to just get a chance to participate on the international stage.
A good documentary to watch:
The Archers of Bhutan
Greece should sue the Olympic Committee for trademark infringement.
It's the greatest threat global security has ever faced.
All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!
http://motivationdose.com/electromagnetic-pulse-attack-emp-blackout-usa-...
I know who the man is!
The viewers.
What's the big deal? It's not like they had a woman living inside a man's body while winning Olympic gold or anything.
Hang on, I got Caitlyn on the other line here ;-)
Better check the US bicycle team, I heard Lance is coaching it :)
I thought we lanced that boil.
The Olympics has become a chemistry competition. Sad...
Petty and vindictive political BS.
Show me an American athlete not doing the same.
Take the money out of politics and supposed amateur sports.Neither are meant to be a career.
They could create the Organic Olympics for those who want drug and chemical free.
And also marathons. If they are going to ban the Russians, they should have banned the Kenyans first.
"Over the past two years, approximately 30 Kenyans have failed doping tests"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2014/11/17/kenyan-marathoners-th...
All of them dope, not just Russia.
This was just singling Russia out since they are the current enemy de jour.
WADA - World Assholes & Douchebags Association
It's good to know that none of these conclusions could in any way be construed as being influenced by international developments. Let's all bathe in truth and justice this morning, the water's fine. I recommend a photo op with Lance Armstrong, a real American.
At least he admitted they ALL did it. This time US is saying They do it.
Does that mean they are banning FDA approved milk, meat and GMO Crank Food from the dining halls.
west is back to old cold war means.
and why i hate this retards?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdpyvayAcwhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d...
Why the hell not? The people running globalist institutions jumped the shark long ago. Why not go even more fuller retard once you've gone full anyway?
+1 for more fuller retard...
Can I borrow that? And would you mind if I changed it to moar fuller retard?
When planning this operation, our elites once more just figured "there's a chance!".
NATO countries ban the Russian athlets, is just a part of the war on Russia, along with economic sanctions and cultural attacks, like Charlie Habdo.
Mood on the Russian streets: If NATO attacks, Russians will be fighting till the last Westerner along with the blacks, Muslims and Asians.
The Middle East Wars: Islamic State SITREPhttp://thesaker.is/the-middle-east-wars-islamic-state-sitrep/
"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 Turin 2006 Russia won 8 gold and 22 overall, so Sochi can be correctly called a return to form.
Yes, neanderthal genes are in all humans.
Except in Afrikans and many Muslims .... it's what makes them different .... all high achievers (Euros,the people not the money, Japs and Koreans, Chinese, etc.) have the Neandertwat gene .... the gene of higher intelligence .... and humanity ?
And this hero of the internet inherited babboon gene, has chromosome one too many, or parents are blood relatives?
Actually the europeans have the most genes follwed by asians then africans.
Now the US of A is causing a second type of Olymics to be created.
The raised hands of those tired of US control of things will be joining.
EXACTLY.
How well did excluding Russia from SWIFT and VISA work out for TPTB?
Wag the Dog. Western policy has destroyed Europe, just caused 127 bloody terror deaths in France, killed the freedoms of the US... so the controlling elites have to point to Russia for unimportant matters like possible athlete doping as a failure hoping the world won't notice the utter catstrophy that the US/Western elites created. Its really too bad when all you have is "Our athletes dope less than yours".
This seems too politically motivated to me.
The easiest way to win in sports or anything else is to eliminate the competition by hook or crook.
Socialism is a lie .... Socialists are liars .... apply yourself .... learn the infinite humanity and efficiency of Capitalism ? Putin and Hillary .... sadly .... are the same shit .... I know that hurts .... Latina Lover et al .... but, then imagine my joy in telling you ?
Socialist bot you embark on paradoxical programming loop:
Now told truthful and stack overflow imminent. Seek help of curator before you core dump in trousers.
SO LET ME GET THIS CORRECT - CIA FUNDED ISIS. ISIS WAS A TOOL TO TOPPLE ASSAD. RUSSIA SAYS "NO" AND HAS WAR AGAINST ISIS. RUSSIA IS NOW "BAD" FOR THE CIA. SECONDARY CIA SCRIPT TO PROGRAM THE PEOPLE ON THE NARRATIVE OF THE "BAD" RUSSIANS IS THAT THEY [RUSSIANS] ARE "CHEATS" AND "LIARS" AND CHEAT AT SPORTS.
DID I GET THAT ONE CORRECT?
Nailed it.
AND EVERYONES SEEMS TO FORGET ABOUT THE USA LIES TO INVADE AND CONQUER IRAQ.
Derrr...
https://youtu.be/lkxSFKbvk6k?t=2m18s
hypocrite; noun1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
putin must have the patience of Job. Lavrov must have no tounge left. The U.S., Eu and Uk politicians are soukas.
Have we heard Saudi, Qatar or Bahrain condem the Paris attacks yet?
No, but the west has time to fuck with the Russians.
These stories remind me I live in hell already.
Saudi is heading UN human rights council, now that is something.
Time to watch something way cooler than Yidlympics, e.g. Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl.
Yidlympics??? DAS RAYCISS! You make it sound as if the olympics is a for profit racket that's funded by taxpayer money or something.
What's the fancy word .... for taking back .... their lying, druggy medals .... and re-instate Armstrong's biking medals .... socialist fucktard Muslim cocksuckers of the world ?
You socialist bot urgently to the curator go. The current programming fails disastrously.
Nobody seems to think clearly about anything, it seems to me. The Olympics Committee involved in any kind of politics is exactly what it was supposed to avoid, to help overcome. Standard for institutions to work to defeat themselves.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/in-reality-everything-is-c...
HEIL, EVEN THE POPLE IS SIDING WITH THE WEST AND NECK DEEP IN POLITICS. WHY WOULDNT THE OLYMPIC GROUP SANCTION RUSSIA
Get a grip! The IAAF vote was 22:1. The Russkies voted "against" and couldn't find a single other federation to support them! Not one!
It's not Russia vs the US, this is Russia vs The World. And the World is in the right this time. And the World is winning. The dying nation of under 140 mil people (mostly alcoholics) cannot compete with the civilized world unless they cheat.
As far as investigations of the former IAAF leadership undertaken by the french, hopefully they will get evidense against the chinese and kick them out of worldwide sport too. Brick by brick, the BRICs fairy-tale is getting disassembled.
"The dying nation of under 140 mil people (mostly alcoholics)"
Flail much...?
America bribes politicians and and influentials all over the world. This has nothing to do with reality. It's about American hegemoney, central banks, the MIC and WWIII. If they, really, cared, they would do surprise drug tests on all the athletes but they don't, really, care. It's about harming Putin and Russia for their own corrupt reasons.
bthunder
How is Ukraine doing? Got into the EU yet? Open borders, warts and all...
DUDE, and you believed the Bush's and other Govts that said Iraq had WMD and was imminent threat too
You just received the Mission Accomplished Award for the most naive post of the day. Congratulations, Reggie.
Damn right it's Russia against the world.
Our masters let the Soviet Union get away with murder----not just in sports---when it was still the PTB's preferred lab experiment in social engineering and central planning.
Russia is now a free, rapidly developing country, who has bigger ambitions than being a source of free oil for the few thousand rich thieves whose grandfathers bankrolled the Bolsheviks
In 15 years when Saudi runs out of oil, Russia will be the largest, richest and most powerful country in Europe---and, being debt-free, will be able to use her wealth to further her interests and not those of the banksters. First order of business---removing all military threats to her children between Paris and Vladivostok and from Arkhangelsk to Aden, and driving her enemies into the Atlantic Ocean.
You better believe our masters have a problem with this, and will do almost anything to prevent it.
One order of business is to turn Russia and her children into a boogie man to be hated, feared and shunned by all decent people. (Why, they even cheat at track!) If the proles had all the facts, you'd have a hard time convincing any of them to be the last to die for banksterism in a war against Russia. Outside the financial districts and Muslim ghettos the Russian army would be greeted as liberators in most of Europe.
In 1976 and 1980, America and Russia played these games, with the Olympics, and the lives of the athletes were ruined.
Thank YOU for that...
'Tis but a 'minor' consideration that is rarely mentioned - the RUINING of many athlete's dreams, expectations, rewards-for-hard-work, etc., for the aggrandizement and posturing of Political NOTHINGS...
Enter Socialist apologists and liars and Islamic terror deniers (should be deniArs .... in keeping with liArs) .... protect your "Comrades in Harms" ?
"...which is politically motivated move that's inextricably related to a variety of geopolitical issues"
There's your take-home.
Your relativistic nuance is breath taking .... in it's scope .... the Venezuelan Revolution .... needs you ?
Is it, or is it not - or, does it play into, or does it not, the geopolitical situation between Russia and the United States?
Chinga tu madre, Puto ! That was a bit harsh .... I don't have time to re-educate you today .... let me enjoy my little victory ?
I'm proud that our Murican athletes are drug free and wholesome and shit.
If they divided the Olympics into two classes;
Tested All natural Track and field and Untested track and field, What one would get the most viewership?
I'm loving this .... right after Veteran´s Day .... the who's who .... of ZH's Socialist misfits .... on parade ?
TIMING OF THIS IS WAAAAAYYYYYYY TO COINCIDENTAL. RUSSIA THE ONLY ONE?????? ROFL
An inconvenient truth .... if ever there was .... LOL .... maybe the MSM thought people would be distracted .... by events in Paris ?
Serena Williams is a man.
If you can't beat them just ban them!
What gets me? The average schmuck swallows this shit, hook, line and sinker.
Thick ain't the word.
Dick "full of baloney" Pound got his revenge.
I'll be surprised if there is an Olympics taking place in '16 in Rio. Just feels like storm is brewing down there, as well as the rest of the globe.
They must have mountainous evidence of doping to ban a whole country's athletes from competing.
Let's see it alongside every other countries tests.
Seems a reasonable request, no?
First the VW emissions scandal, now the Russian doping scandal. I'm just waiting for the day when they discover that 7 year olds in China make those iPhones...I tell you there will be hell to pay!
About the time they release the voice recording of that jet the went down in the Uke.
America is evil.
But we let Serena Williams compete in Olympic women's tennis.
Women should play tennis naked .... share the science of anatomy .... in motion ?
Melissa Click .... eat my skid marks ?
USA! USA! USA!
we're #1 ! we're #1 !
our athletes are chemical free
(well, some of them)
Four-year olds smearing snots at each other, pathetic. Where are the adults?
Moscow.
The Olympics have no credibility.
Russia never does anything wrong they are just hated for their Freedoms.
Better they can save some money there.
In the USSA, cops get taxpayer-funded steroids from "candy man" doctors.
Yet in international competition where everyone dopes, Russa is shown the door?
PURE FRAUD. PURE POLITICS. How can you be certain? Because all participants are tested.
But these cretins imagine they can just wave their hands around and make vague, arbitrary bogus claims, and everyone will believe them? Yeah, right.
More preparation for WW3.
This totally trashes the reputation of the Olympics creeps just as awarding Obomber the Nobel Peace Prize trashed the reputation of the Nobel creeps. They might as well cancel all international everything, since it is all utterly and completely corrupted.
This crusade against Russia is tiresome.
Yes it is, and it's infuriating. Because it exposes the fact that this time around we are definitely on the wrong side of the next war. A major war that is in the process of being started by the satanic monstrosity that the global banking mafia has become. And it is 100% needless. The world would not have wars without bankers inciting them, funding them and profiting from them. Period!
I think the entire world can see now, just by watching Putin's interviews and actions, that the Russian leader is probably the greatest true leader in the world today. His people love him and for damned good reasons. He is outsmarting the bankers and their muppets at every turn. The man uses pure logic. His actions make sense. He is 'a doer', not 'a talker'. I dare say, "thank god that Putin has developed a strong alliance with Iran and China. Thank god they developed the new BRICS bank. Thank god China created a new gold clearing house."
If not for those countries finally getting so fed up that they had no choice but to launch these new and wonderfully shocking events, the bankers would be able to continue to run roughshod over the entire planet, grab it all into their possession, and enslave all of humanity into debt slavery from here until the end of time. All that stands in their way is Putin, Jinping and their allies. Thankfully more and more people are beginning to realize this. No wonder Jay Rockefeller said "the worst thing we ever did was invent the internet."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=necfW5Dj5UQ
Sometimes things develop more slowly than one expects. In July 2012 I wondered whether that year's Olympics might be the last Games ever to be held. Yet here we are again, almost. How embarrassing. Will next year's Games be the last ones ever to be held? Probably not - although it would be the best thing that could happen. The world really doesn't need yet another hysterical celebration of tribal prejudice.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2012/07/could-these-be-last-olympic-ga...
Yes, mass games should be left to the North Koreans.
That isn't the point though. This is an attempt to libel Russia and isolate her for daring to refuse to jump when Wall Street says hop---much less give away her oil to Wall Street for free.
Can't get those Ruskes on the battle then they'll get'em on the playing field. This is really all a joke and if I were Russia; I get some the BRIC's to stand behind them and all obstain from near future athletics to show how pointless their mocker and mudded dope charges really are.
Right now it appears the West are in "What else can we pin on the Russians" mode
Maybe that's the point. Create an alternative everything just like they have to create a BRICS. Then the world is split neatly in two for the Oligarchs once again.
Oh, gee, now Russia can't send a few people to go throw poles, or run around in a circle. Terrible fucking news. It's not like it takes talent to run faster than someone else. What a fucking joke Olympics are, especially at the expense of the taxpayers.
Here's a novel idea: if your 'sport' cannot support itself through ticket / ad sales, then it fails just like any other business.
The petty pissant crusade against Russians continues. What a bunch of ridiculous children they are, these people who control the U.S.
I'll tell you why this is so bad, I mean the entire world now. The Olympics is the one area that is supposed to be sacrosynct. Where we as a species recognize our competetive nature and channel it into something that brings us together. Russia was snubbed by the West in the Sochi Olympics after a huge investment. As an American, I am ashamed my politicians did this. Who knows? Giving a little ground in this area may open up some new dialogue to avoid the 'Big red button solutions.'
Yeah like other counrty's aren't doing it.... This is all about coming down on Russia for killing CIA Backed ISIS Fighters. Absolutely Pathitic. If I was Russia, I would Boycott all Olympics and encorage other country's to do the same. This shit pisses me off as much as Obama winning the Peace treaty.....
If this is the beginning of the Olympics crumbling away, I am all for it. This deception of uniting the world's youth for peaceful games is just an outdated illusion. They are too expensive etc. etc. etc.
Do something productive with your time, energy, and money.
Well, that's probably a good move for the atletic commision. In every sport like boxing or track & field for example, there shouldn't be an unfair advantage for every athlete and that's what makes the game interesting to watch. On the other hand The World Anti-Doping Agency released had several revisions mainly to screen all athletes and to avoid such allegations. I've seen that 2016 will be a progressive events for all the players. Same thing, I'm fond of sports betting and having those unpredicatable odds in the atletics could be more fun and could have a greater chance of winning.