Posted on 08/01/2018 7:02:10 AM PDT by BeadCounter
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of a bill that would make international sports doping a crime argued Wednesday that the legislation would deter scandals like Russian state-sponsored drug use at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Yulia Stepanova, a Russian former track athlete who became a whistleblower about the drug program, said at a congressional hearing that ending doping in her country would have to “start from the top” — with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
The bill was named for Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the Russian lab director who exposed the cheating in Sochi. Rodchenkov has said the doping stemmed from Putin’s command to his sports ministry to “win at any cost.”
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What happened at the Olympics this year was SUCH a SHAM. Individual athletes who are clean should have been allowed to complete as neutrals but the ‘Athletes from Russia’ compromise was made because Putin is best friends with the German head of the IOC. Forgot his name.
The whistleblowers are still in exile...not including the two who were killed in Russia.
This Bill sounds like petty Imperialism.
The article seems to be to remind us that “Russia did it”.
Oh yeah, Trump is soft on Putin.
“The bill being considered in the House is stronger because it would allow the United States to police doping that occurs outside its borders. U.S. and foreign athletes would be subject to the law if competing in an event that includes four or more U.S. athletes and athletes from three or more countries. “
So if you happen to be competing against US athletes, anywhere on earth, and you use some banned steroid or performance enhancing substance, we now claim universal rights to arrest? Arrest any athlete from any nation on earth and have them extradited here? And they are subject to US law because US athletes were participants in their game?
It seems to be the mission of DC to make us the most hated nation on earth.
The Olympics have become a farce. Half the athletes are from the USA or other western nations, and represent some other third world nation because they didn’t make the home team. The olympic village has become a bacchanal with people openly bragging on TV about how many others they screwed and insulting Trump. The venue is selected based on bribery. NBC has universal TV rights. The medals aren’t real gold, the venue always falls into ghost town ruin a month later, and the prize money is taxed.
So when we breathlessly hold hearings like this on some righteous crusade, you know it’s justa political game.
LOL, I always said instead of competing for their country, they should just represent the US University they attended. I know UF always has a huge representation at the Games with athletes from many different countries.
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