Posted on 11/20/2017 12:50:05 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
The honorary president of Russia’s Olympic Committee believes the man responsible for exposing the country’s state-sponsored doping program should be executed.
Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Moscow’s anti-doping lab, exposed the scheme in 2016 after fleeing to the United States.
“Rodchenkov should be shot for lying, like Stalin would have done,” Olympic official Leonid Tyagachev said on a Russian radio station, according to the Guardian.
Tyagachev’s remark may sound like hyperbole but Russia has a long history of killing political opponents—two former doping officials died under mysterious circumstances last year—and Rodchenkov fled to the U.S. over fears for his safety.
Rodchenkov decision to go public with the government endorsed doping program has made him a pariah in Russia.
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The are probably quoting verbatim what “our” Hussein Heads are saying about BJ’s wife’s whistle-blower.
No , Stalin would have shot everyone with that last name
Yep...Clearly influenced by, or colluded with, the clintonian crime family.
Lance Armstrong beat the Russians, the French, and every other commie state-establishment at their own uber game.
LIVESTRONG!
If I’m not mistaken, the filmmaker behind the Netflix movie “Icarus” initially set out to unpack the Lance Armstrong story only to discover just how intricate and massive the Russian state-run campaign was.
Yep.
https://www.google.com/search?q=icarus+lance+armstrong
Beats destroying millions of lives “competing” on the battlefield.
Take the restrictions off and let the peaceful state competition go where it goes in the daylight.
Simultaneously, create Mr. Natural competitions for those not inclined to enhance themselves artificially.
“No , Stalin would have shot everyone with that last name”
At least he was thorough!
Not denying that liberal leftists in the West today get a lot of their behavioral cues from the Bolsheviks of old...and new.
Russia. If they’re not cheating, it’s because something just doesn’t matter to them.
How honorable and sporting of him; no wonder multitudes don’t trust Russian athletes to not be doped up.
The verbal threats are followed up by actual action. Welcome to Putin’s Russia, which claims to be the moral standard bearer for the rotting Western world.
Tragic
Sounds like the Russian who wants to execute the whistleblower would make a great American democrat.
Conflict in Russian Women’s Olympic Shot Put team. Sergejeva used Ivanova’s shaving kit without permission so Ivanova kicked Sergejeva to her balls.
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