Posted on 12/04/2017 2:32:55 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
...For one, Putin will be furious. Losing any and all connection to the Olympics a month before Russia's election would be a black mark for his country, and the IOC is reportedly already aware that its decision could humiliate the disgruntled president...
Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, called the WADA findings a "joke."
Since November, with only months to spare before the start of PyeongChang's 2018 ceremonies, Russia has seen more than two dozen athletes reprimanded by the IOC for cheating in previous Olympics, namely the 2014 Sochi Games. Some have been stripped of gold medals for their alleged roles in a "state-backed doping program." Others have been retroactively disqualified. And many have been outright and indefinitely banned from future Olympics participation, including in February's South Korean Winter Games.
All the while, Russian president Vladimir Putin has neither acknowledged nor publicly considered the possibility of state cooperation in the doping scandal despite incriminating notes from a Russian chemist that were obtained by The New York Times. He's been most vocal, in fact, when painting the widespread Olympics sanctions not as evidence of structural corruption in his own country but merely as fodder for his political rivals -- Putin is on record suggesting that America is using the doping sanctions to "discredit" his government and influence Russia's presidential election in March.
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Well they are still planning on competing in the games...i think...
not gonna happen
I bet you have been loving this past year’s of “Russia collusion” witch hunt
Yeah I wouldn’t bet on it either.
I hate it in a way. Because it distracts from the events and impending changes happening right now IN Russia. Also there was far more “collusion” with Russians by those opposed to Trump than for him.
One thing I like though is the release of documentaries like “Icarus” on Netflix which takes non-Russians into the world of State-run Russian doping. Its a good introductory metaphor for how Putin has been running the entire country for the past two decades, not just the sports.
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