Posted on 06/04/2019 1:26:29 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia could be banned from competing in the second consecutive Olympics over allegedly forged medical documents, Britain’s The Sunday Times reported.
High jumper Danil Lysenko, 22, had been one of the Russians cleared to compete internationally for having demonstrated he was training in a doping free-environment. However, he lost his status and was provisionally suspended in August 2018 for having failed to provide his whereabouts.
Russia could now be barred from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo after The Sunday Times reported that paperwork showing that Lysenko was too ill to give his location to drug-testing officials was allegedly forged.
“The clinic [listed on the paperwork] was false from top to bottom, from registration numbers through to false doctors’ names through to falsified documentation...”
Russia's athletics federation is cooperating with global athletics officials in a probe into allegations that some of its representatives forged documents, president Dmitry Shlyakhtin said in a statement.
Shlyakhtin was questioned about the forgery by the international athletics federation IAAF’s integrity unit in Monaco in April.
The Russian athletics federation has been suspended since a 2015 report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report that found evidence of widespread doping in the sport. Russia’s Olympic team was barred from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea over the allegations, with Russian athletes cleared of doping permitted to compete under a neutral flag.
Russian authorities have denied their doping program was state-sponsored but have accepted that senior officials were involved in providing banned substances to athletes, interfering with anti-doping procedures or covering up positive tests.
The IAAF will consider whether to lift the ban against Russia at its Council meeting in Monaco next week.
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Russia is not the only problem. I watched Olympic Women’s High Dive qualifying...and the woman I saw was NOT a woman. Ugly clunky trannie.
Women’s sports will die if they let men into competitions. No matter how they “self identify.”
Salt Lake City Olympics made profit.
Atlanta in 1996 broke even or made a little.
Agreed I wonder what the committees will decide on that.
We dont have to “ dope” our women’s athletes anymore, just tape up their balls and let the testosterone roll
Lol
Meanwhile, the world wonders.
What sport will be the first to allow a transgender man to compete as a woman?
I lost interest in the Olympics by the ‘80s, when we had broader entertainment choices and it was clear that there was nothing amateur about it.
Does not stop their athletes from donning another uniform and continuing to win medals. As they did at last year’s winter games.
Promoting peace and unity internationally through the medium of sports.
That or worshipping Zeus, and having Greek men show off their physical prowess to other Greek men.
The purpose of the Olympics?
To allow countries across the globe to compete in sports rather than shooting guns.
or - just plain entertaining.
If low-confidence men insist on invading women’s sports next year, it will be the end of the games.
Lysenko?
Any relation the famous Soviet director of the Institute of Genetics? Trofim Lysenko.
He was a big name in Soviet population control.
Yeah it’s because the head of the IOC (Thomas Bach) is a long time close friend with Putin...and other higher-ups are closely linked with various oligarchs. So they made sure that the punishment was not really an actual one.
The entire “suspension” business was pure BS. McLaren was like another Robert Mueller. Came to his conclusions with no public transparency, no way to verify anything he said, no display of evidence. We just had to “take his word”. That suspension was a huge injustice, and in my opinion, made the entire Olympics invalid by removing one of the world’s athletic powerhouses.
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