matticus
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Yeah.
I didn't follow the detail of how the "ROC" was setup, but the intention sounded honourable.
How it's turned out seems an utter farce.
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I didn't follow the detail of how the "ROC" was setup, but the intention sounded honourable.
How it's turned out seems an utter farce.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I think the history is that some of the Russians were pretty dodgy. But some were OK. So they just asked them, "are you OK?" And if they said yes, then they were in the Russian OK team. ROK became ROC due to the Cyrillic alphabet.
Probably.
matticus
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When I first saw ROC in the medals table I assumed "republic of china" 
Time Waster
Veteran
I thought Russian Olympic committee and thought it might be run by vetted Russian Olympic coaches or other Olympic officials. Never believed it made one jot of a difference. Russian athletes have Russian coaches and are part of the Russian apparatus of power and control. Everyone in Russia is available to be used for the national "good". Exclusion isn't going to work and neither is inclusion.
My only suggestion is over zealous testing and an anti libertarian view that they're guilty unless proven otherwise, in which case that kid wouldn't have even made it to the Olympics let alone get a young person pass from the CAS!
My only suggestion is over zealous testing and an anti libertarian view that they're guilty unless proven otherwise, in which case that kid wouldn't have even made it to the Olympics let alone get a young person pass from the CAS!
bitsandbobs
Über Member
When I first saw ROC in the medals table I assumed "republic of china"
Theres no way China would allow that and no way the IOC would challenge them on it.
I think the last "ROC" athletes competed in 1984.
vickster
Legendary Member
By not winning a medal, she's probably saved herself a lot of aggro (still hope they go after her 'team' though)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60399342
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60399342
Jenkins
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I suppose that's what happens when you forget to take someone else's medicine.
vickster
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
An explanation of that link
Great Britain have been stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100m relay at last summer's Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation.
vickster
Legendary Member
Ta, normally it adds the headline
matticus
Guru
Bloody sprinters:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60445366
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60445366
He didn’t test positive for anything other than being an idiot
Lucky boy to get a suspended sentence. Especially when another criminal involved in the same enterprise got 26 years!
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
There was a programme on the 'BBC World Service' a couple of weeks ago, about how some f**tballist clubs have (I think) 65% of their big-jessies on asthma treatments
The UK population on prescribed treatments is an average of 12%?
It was postulated that it was an attempt to get TUEs, in order to improve performance
Interesting.....................
The UK population on prescribed treatments is an average of 12%?
It was postulated that it was an attempt to get TUEs, in order to improve performance
Interesting.....................