Doping

Greek athlete busted in rio prior to the start . Still time to parachute in a replacement.

Plus another from Ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/06/wada-label-brazils-decision-to-stop-testing-olympians-unacceptable?utm_content=buffer95af1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Brazil not testing athletes

JV on Lizzie:

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Bit catty

Full cunt, I'd say.

They have history. She was riding for the Cervelo Test Team when they merged with Vaughters' Slipstream/Garmin team and the team only lasted one season before the funding ended on the women's side.

I don't think anyone who rode for CTT has a positive opinion of Vaughters.

I don't find her response very authentic.

I don't think anyone has a positive opinion of Vaughters.

Obvious FTFY

Enjoying the various finger-wagging back and forth at the Olympics, mack Horton salling out Sun Yang as a doper, and China responds with this gem

“In many serious essays written by Westerners, Australia is mentioned as a country at the fringes of civilization. In some cases, they refer to the country’s early history as Britain’s offshore prison. This suggests that no one should be surprised at uncivilized acts emanating from the country.”

Strewth!

THE RISE AND FALL OF GERD BONK, THE WORLD CHAMPION OF DOPING
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-gerd-bonk-the-world-champion-of-doping

That's quite saddening. But an obvious response to the occasional thoughtless comment one hears 'why not abolish drug rules and let sportspeople take whatever they want'

That is a very sad article.

There was a lot put in place to support athletics in the GDR, especially cycling - which perhaps does something to explain why nearly all of the notable German cyclists today are from the East.

But because literally everyone was part of this state programme, it's hard to be anything other than cynical about any of the success they had.

2nd kenyan coach sent home from olympics

after he turns up to provide urine sample on behalf of the athlete who was summonsed

Fina (swimming) spent £560,000 on anti-doping in 2015 - approximately one tenth of the figure that cycling's governing body, the UCI, spent.

They can't afford anti doping, making 100 sets of medals for every championship isn't cheap.

Speculate to accumulate. Would imagine some medals could be reclaimed.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/12/ethiopia-almaz-ayana-10000-world-record-olympics

Maybe time will tell if this is the right thread for this or not.

bare in mind its supposed to be a quick track as well which might explain why so many pbs were set

Hehe

It might be a quick track but that record from '93 was by the Chinese athlete (if memory serves China got a 1-2 in that race with the two fastest times ever posted?) who came from nowhere and disappeared from competition afterwards, and was widely acknowledged to be one of the doped unbreakable records.
David Walsh tweeted something along the lines of there not being enough evidence to accuse, but not enough trust to celebrate... and I think that's about right.

yep its certainly fishy. But vivian cheruiyot's time was only 0.8 seconds of Wang Junxias and was about a minute faster than her 2012 performance, so the track must be playing quite a big part

Yeah could be - track didn't look especially quick for the sprinters just now - only the first round of course - but what's slow for sprinters can be fast for distance. Also, tactics are such a huge part of the 10k that people don't always go all out from the gun, meaning times can be slow just because of the race.

But still.

Fuck you, China. Do your swimmers still look like Italian body builders?