Posted on 02/23/2018 4:00:58 AM PST by C19fan
A second Russian athlete has failed a doping test at the Pyeongchang Games, a day before the International Olympic Committee's executive board is to decide whether to reinstate the country for Sunday's closing ceremony. Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov told The Associated Press on Friday that a drug-test sample that pilot Nadezhda Sergeeva gave on Sunday was positive.
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You an SEC hater? Grab a tissue and get better, yeah?
As the Russian doping, thought they were alleged to be dope free hence their invitation to play under the OAR banner?
The big question is “Did Trump collude with the Russians on this too?”
The olympics these days have so many “diversified” sports these days, perhaps they are taking the wrong approach to this.
I’d suggest they setup a new Sport of Doping. Have athletes compete in this. They could be creative in how they exhibit their doping results. Judges would do the usual in response, holding up a placard with their number - 1 to 10.
This way, doping would be contained - if you want to excel in it, you have an outlet. The non-dopers would play in all the other sports.
Evidently one of the curlers tested positive for doping too. I question that because what advantage would someone in that sport gain from it?
Don't worry. CNN will figure out the connection soon enough :-)
I wonder what the results would be if we had dope testing in the US Congress and a test to see if Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg test positive for blood from aborted babies.
NO, I am not joking.
I asked my wife the same thing. It would be akin to doping for a chess tournament.
Those curling stones are heavy. :)
Stop with all the false accusations! These are not Russians! They are The Olympic Athletes of Russia. Totally different animal, or the Olympic Committee never would have invited them. Russia was banned from the Olympics for Doping, so they weren’t even there...
That's what I was wondering. Curling looks like it is mostly about skill (accuracy) and strategy. It doesn't look particularly physically taxing. Yes, the stones are heavy, but it appears most of the push comes from leg muscles. You take turns rotating through the team etc so you're only delivering a couple per round.
Seems to me if you need to "dope" to compete in curling that's pretty pathetic. Tough guy, olympic athlete... {snort} Has to dope to compete in an event easily done by women and other men who have day jobs and do this as a hobby.
Keep them awake?
Ten ends (innings) per game, eight stones per end, and they sweep their asses off for the majority of those 80 stones.
It’s cold in those curling venues (obviously), but you’ll see many foreheads with sweat beading after a couple of ends.
The Russian guy has denied it; dunno about this latest girl.
Dope so you can make the legendary overhand pitch in curling to keep you opponent’s stones from blocking you.
There is collusion in the sense that Putin is incredibly good friends with the German head of the IOC.
And as with FIFA/World Cup: the IOC operates unde a crony culture of corruption, luxury kickbacks, bribes, and backroom dealing so endemic to world orgs like these and especially pronounced in countries like Russia and Arab places. So there was never bound to be a genuine ban in the first place.
My opinion was that individual athletes who did not participate in Sochi should be able to compete as individuals, under their own names, and with genuine neutral flag and Olympic flag uniforms. As far as “team sports” like hockey: a ban this time around on forming anything resembling a team would have been warranted.
I recommend viewing the Netflix documentary “Icarus.” The doping system at work in Russia is not just about sports - but about the kind of system and society Putin has built in Russia for the past 20 years as a whole. How the State-run doping network worked is sadly how the country works in general: its economy, its businesses, etc... And honest people always suffer or end up being shafted.
Even the Bolshoi ballet under Putin’s rule is swarmed with crime and corruption. Think Weinstein’s Hollywood times 10.
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