Dragonlady wrote:Evgeny Plushenko has come out and said he's never taken drugs, and I tend to believe him. There is little value in skaters taking drugs, with the possible exception of Pairs. Over the years, few skaters have been nailed for drugs, and those that have, generally have taken them by accident, like cold medication.
bumphystars wrote:
Regardless, the whole thing is just so sad. Every Russian athlete is tainted by this news, whether they cheated or not in reality. And the facts say that many, many of them did, and it sometimes was out of their control, which is devastating. It's also devastating for all of the athletes who were denied a placement by a doped-up athlete. Calls the whole Olympic movement into question. I, for one, will not be as interested in Rio because I just can't believe that the athletes are clean. I hope they get it figured out by the time the next Olympics come but I'm not hopeful.
Ellen wrote:
If you have impression that Russian athletes cheat with doping and the others are all clean - please look at the statistics.
The # of Olympic medals taken away from the athletes for doping violations after 1990:
1.USA: Gold-7, Silver-1, Bronze-2
2.Russia: Gold-4, Silver-5, Bronze-2
3.Spain: Gold-3, Silver-0, Bronze-0
4.Hungary: Gold-2, Silver-1, Bronze-0
5.Germany: Gold-2, Silver-0, Bronze-0
6.Bulgaria: Gold-1, Silver-1, Bronze-1
7.Ukraine: Gold-1, Silver-1, Bronze-1
8.Belarus: Gold-1, Silver-1, Bronze-1
9.Bahrain: Gold-1, Silver-0, Bronze-0
10.Romania: Gold-1, Silver-0, Bronze-0
Russia is not even on the first place.
Andy wrote:
Two observations on this.
1) Fact that ATHLETES from other countries cheated, does not make the question any better
2) Here there is talk of a state program, not of individual athletes cheating. And that is unique, to the best of my knowledge, since the DDR in the 80es and China in the very same period.
chuckiem wrote:Ellen, You should be mad at your country's doping control organization and the sports organization that oversees it for covering up the doping practices of the athletes that were involved. It is because those organizations can't be trusted to do what they were required to do that all the athletes were banned from Rio.
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