According to the New York Times, Russian officials have admitted to widespread doping operations not only at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but across multiple Olympic Games. The admissions came during several days of interviews with the Times. Formerly, officials had adamantly denied the existence of these operations, even in light of Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov‘s confession to facilitating the doping scheme.
In her interview with the times, Anna Antseliovich, director of Russia’s national anti-doping agency, confirmed the widespread doping. When asked about the doping issue, she said, “it was an institutional conspiracy.” While Russian officials have now admitted to widespread doping, they’ve given the red light to the accusations that doping has been state-sponsored. An admission to state-sponsored doping would mean that Russian President Vladimir Putin would also be implicated in the controversy.
Controversy reached its peak this summer with the release of the McLaren Report, which confirmed state-sponsored doping in Russia. McLaren claimed his findings had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the controversy was an issue in all sports disciplines. His report found that the systematic doping began in 2010.
The 2nd McLaren report, which was released earlier this month, backed up his claims and stated that the doping programs continued past Sochi. The report stipulates that over 1000 Russian athletes were involved in or benefited from “manipulations to conceal positive tests.” Among the athletes named for “disappearing positives” in the first report were swimmers Vlad Morozov, Nikita Lobintsev, and Daria Ustinova.
The Russian Olympic Committee has not yet made a statement.
Katie ledecky swims an 8:04 WR in the 800 free.
I would like to see a Russian drug that could make any of their women swim an 8:04 in the 800 free. That would be neat.
Is there any Russian drug that could produce a Russian Michael phelps, swimming a lot of events or a Russian drug that could give us a Russian katinka hosszu. If there,s such a drug I say make that drug legal or maybe such a drug will be undetectable. It maybe there,s no such drug?
The Putin farce is a little bit more exposed every day. Hilarious to know that the Russian dictator is the hero of some candidates of the future French presidential election. And that the next illegitimate US President is a Moscow’s agent. Shame on all these guys.
I remember the University Games in Kazan in 2013. It was a joke.
Medal table
1. Russia 156 gold medals and 292 medals overall
2. China 26/77
Russian swimmers were pretty good that year…. A famous sprinter for example.
Track and field world championships 2013 in Moscow. Russia won the medal table too….
Winter olympic games 2014 in Sochi. Russia won the medal table too….
Putin… Read more »
Dont forget their 2015 domination in Baku
http://www.baku2015.com/medals/sport=sw/index.html
Easy there, Tiger.
Has Trump ever produced a valid birth certificate?
Would it make a difference to you if he did?
So Putin is colluding with Trump, Trump is a secret agent of Moscow, some of France’s politicians are in on this secret alliance, and that somehow circles back and ties into Russia’s doping program?
“It was an institutional conspiracy,”
They still don’t want to call it what it actually is. State Sponsored Doping and Cheating.
How many innocent athletes were denied an Olympic medal, an Olympic Final, or Olympic Semi-Final because of the cheaters?
They are admitting guilt so they can beg for forgiveness and get yet another slap on the wrist by the “governing” bodies. You know how it goes, cry a few tears, say you are sorry, and tell the press they just don’t understand the situation.
Enough! Time for some action.
Don’t trust ’em
In other news, water is wet.
That is actually a libelous rumor fabricated by the West in order to diminish the hard work and tremendous accomplishments of water, and I demand that you retract your statement immediately and issue a public apology.
After discussing the matter with my colleagues, I will concede that water is, in fact, wet, but this was only an institutional conspiracy. This was not a state-sponsored matter by any means.
Those that claim water is wet are just sore losers.
This explains why Vlad hasnt been nearly as fast since 2013. Sub 41 100 free and and sub 18 50 free relay split in SCY. He went a mid 47 LCM and even went out in a 21.8 to his feet during his 100 free at world champs. Ever since Russia has been under investigation he hasn’t shown the same speed.
He should seriously consider changing his name to something like Joe Smith to avoid the second-guessing.
The shame of it is that Dave Salo, a brilliant coach if ever there was one, is forced to wonder how much of Morozov’s success was due to Salo’s training and how much to drugs. No honest coach, which I believe Salo is, should be put in that position.