Doping

But it was only his right hand man who knew about Russian doping cover ups. Not the good Lord Coe!

is athletics in worse shape today than cycling was at its nadir? It doesn't (yet?) have an a-list star to compare with dear old lance but apart from that it seems pretty terrible.

There was never any evidence of high level corruption at the UCI. Verbruggen and McQuaid were incompetent and made poor decisions, but neither of them were embezzling money from dopers as far as we know.

There was some collusion on failed tests, but never to the point where UCI management were taking bribes to cover up tests, although the Sysmex machine saga still needs fully explaining.

Seb Coe is no Brian Cookson either, more a slimier version of Pat McQuaid.

Al Jazeera got a UK masters level runner to go undercover in US sports medicine saying he wanted a shot at the Olympics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRPxmTuxoI

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paolini-admits-to-cocaine-use-and-sleeping-tablet-addiction/

Paolini comes clean before being busted.

Can you give me the synopsis?

Before?

NFL and baseball riddled with current dopers using products not approved for human use so aren't even tested for, and they got someone on video saying he helped dope Peyton Manning who is basically as close as US gets to royalty

Though in US sports not signed up to WADA this is normal :|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ7O9NFKEfY

Grim.

Michael Boogerd handed a 2 year ban for doping violations in 2005-2007.

He says he doped between 1997 and 2007:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/06/michael-boogerd-banned-doping-cycling-rabobank

They should give the '99 Amstel Gold race title to the runner-up.

JTL racing again in Feb

who is going to take him?

lolz

No-one.

Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets:

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/blood-samples-in-a-barcelona-freezer-could-spark-biggest-doping-scandal-of-all-time-34352157.html

I'm betting it'll be quashed by the courts. Nothing's coming out.

Too many Spanish institutions involved, with national pride at stake.

Too many Spanish institutions involved, with national steak at pride.

Too many Spanish inquisitions involved, with national steak at pride

WADA second report on IAAF out today. Says doping was widespread and the whole organisation must've known what was going on.

Corruption endemic too. The to rights Russia paid for the 2013 world championships were upped from $6m to $25m after a meeting between the IAAF and the Russian government, presumably as a bribe to cover up the Russian doping programme.

The report says that the IAAF council could not have been unaware of doping athletics

Dick Pound says Lord Coe is the best person to carry on as the IAAF president and days he >doesn’t believe that the former London 2012 chief knew about the doping

But he does say that there was a cover-up – something Coe denied on Wednesday.

Instead Pound blames organisational failure and says the blame extends beyond the Diacks but >continued to absolve Coe of blame.

Of course, the Diacks are not without blame and Pound said that everything began with the >former IAAF president Lamine Diack who “was responsible for organizing and enabling the >conspiracy and corruption” that took place.

The commission also fears that instances of extortion in Russia and Turkey may be the ‘tip of >the iceberg’

Pound refuses to set a timeframe for Russia’s return to elite athletics competition.

Difficult for the first two points to both be true.

wtf is with these corrupt sports - athletics have Dick Pound, football has Tokyo Sexwale...