Ellen wrote:wmari wrote: I inclined to think that what is in WADA report for the most part is very likely to be true.
Likely, unlikely... How do you know? Nobody still cared to give any worth evidence. All only keep repeating like mantra about Russian doping.
For me the most likely thing is that most of the US team sit on doping. Considering the latest revealed facts that the dozens top US athletes including the 4-times Rio gold medalist Simone Biles used the doping drugs regularly since 2010.
Those drugs that Williams sisters and Simone Biles were using are in the WADA's banned list as performance enhancing drugs. Even if it's for legit medical reasons if it gives them a huge advantage they shouldn't be allowed to compete. Take it to the extreme, someone without legs using a motorized wheelchair to compete in a marathon.
If the drug is in the banned list - it is not allowed to Everybody. It's plain and simple.
Maria Sharapova is still not allowed to compete for using Meldonium which is not performance enhancing medicine, even NHL officially allowed Meldonium. At the same time Serena and Vinus Williams have been taking very strong drugs - I wonder what they were diagnosed and who were the doctors that made those medical prescriptions.
If all is legal why then the facts, that the US athletes use doping, are kept secret by USADA?
Irina Slutskaya competed for many years while taking drugs for her heart condition which were banned for use by others. Irina provided medical proof that she needed the drugs and obtained permission to use it. Quite frankly I was amazed she was able to compete at all given some of the side effects of the drugs which she was taking, but this is a case where she followed the rules, obtained the permit to use the drug, and was allowed to compete.
The biggest difference I see between the American athletes who have been caught doping, and the Russian doping scandal is that the sports federations in the US are not doping their athletes or covering up their test results. It's not a systemic thing, it's individual coaches and athletes in the US and Canada who make these decision to cheat. In Russia, it seems the athletes weren't given a choice, and many didn't know what they were even taking.