Sha'Carri on the differences between her and Russian skater: "The only difference I see is I’m a black young lady."

Ummm your'e talking two different sports. Marti Vainio was pulled off the starting line of the 84 5000 because he failed a drug test a few days before. He's as white as can be- he's from Finland.

I think you're missing Steve's point. Yes, The United States is privileged as many of our citizens are including black people. Is it disproportional? Yes, but compared to much of the world it is the "least racist". Yes, racism does exist in the U.S., and will always exist. Anyone who thinks racism will be eradicated is an idiot. As long as you have a multi-cultural diversified society with varying degrees of population numbers you WILL have groups of people in the majority believe they're superior. This is nothing new and has been going on since the birth of mankind. Can we educate ourselves and work towards "Diluting" this way of thinking? Absolutely YES!, but we will never be a completely anti-racist society.

SR is a F^^king Idiot no matter what color her skin is.

Sha'Carri got lucky with her ridiculously small ban of only one month.

Kamila's ban is yet to be determined.

Kamila gets to compete provisionally because she is a minor; a better comparison is McNeal who also got to compete provisionally just last year (for an undisclosed reason?) while her ban was being decided upon by CAS.

In all three cases, the anti-doping rule violator got off too easy, imho. Those are all terrible signals that USADA/AIU/USADA/WA/CAS are sending out.

Coleman got off the hook initially; fortunately AIU caught him again and then got him banned for real, although only for 18 months.

Thomas got off the hook after her provisional suspension.

Lewis is one of the over 100 athletes whose positive tests got covered up by USATF in the good old days.

Only assholes use the phrase “the race card” (or the word “woke” as a pejorative, for that matter.)

Sha has the mouth of a goose? A chicken?

Other differences:

Sha'Carri is blond. Kamila is brunette. Could be a hair color thing.
Sha'Carri can't keep her mouth shut. Kamila hasn't said much. Could be an "open your mouth and show your ignorance" thing.
Sha'Carri is lesbian. Kamila loves her Pomeranian. Could be an LGBTQP thing.
Sha'Carri is 5'1". Kamila is 5'3". Could be a height thing.
Sha'Carri started running in high school (age 15-18, 3-6 years experience). Kamila began skating in 2009 (age 3, 12 years experience). Could be a maturity thing.

Sure seems like it.

"World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Witold Banka on Tuesday called the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to lift the provisional suspension of Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) figure skater Kamila Valieva "very controversial."

Valieva had been provisionally banned on February 8 when a sample taken in December last year returned a positive result for the banned substance trimetazidine. She was allowed to continue competing at Beijing 2022 after the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Disciplinary Committee lifted the ban on February 9.

WADA, the International Olympic Committee and the International Skating Union appealed against the RUSADA's decision with CAS on Friday, yet CAS on Monday declined to impose a provisional suspension on Valieva.

"We are disappointed with the way the Arbitration Tribunal approached this ruling. I don't know why CAS chose not to rely on the World Anti-Doping Code. This is a very controversial decision, because the code does not provide for special exceptions to the so-called 'temporary suspension' in the case of minors," Banka said in Tuesday's interview for Polish media.

The ROC said on Friday that it is "taking comprehensive measures to protect the rights and interests of the ROC Team members and to keep the Olympic gold medal won in fair competition" in an official statement.

The ROC "also assumes that a full investigation will be conducted to determine all the relevant legal and factual circumstances of what happened," it added.

"Given the fact that the positive sample of the athlete was taken not during the Olympic Games, the results of the athlete and the results of the team event during the Olympic Games are not subject to automatic revision," the committee added.

RUSADA claimed in a statement that it is not responsible for the fact that Valieva's failed doping test arrived after the start of the Winter Olympics as it "is strictly guided in its activities by the provisions of regulatory documents, namely the code and international standards."
The athlete's sample collected on December 25, 2021 was delivered to the laboratory in the time sufficient to perform the analysis within the standards timeframe, RUSADA added.
Banka, however, said that RUSADA made a mistake.
"Usually, national anti-doping agencies mark important samples as a priority, and then there are no problems with a quick result or possible delays. RUSADA did not do this. Hence, the Swedish laboratory did not know that a given sample should be tested very quickly. This is a RUSADA mistake", said the WADA president..."

And bigots.

There is nothing in the code that says you get an exception for being a minor.

See no other difference.

Moo G~ Ha ha! You don't know crap! She is training and will be competing during the outdoor season. You know so much about her by looking at her IG page. I can't - I can't lol

Please delete this thread, Bc it’s full of misinformation! @rogo @wejo

Where's the patriotism when it comes to Sha'Carri Richards? She represents USTAF, and the majority of the comments that I've read are excuses for the Russia girl and you folks pretending that race has nothing to do with this situation.

The Russia girl should NOT be competing! It is definitely sending the wrong message that it is okay to CHEAT if you are at a certain age.

Hmm so you think many poster here feel a certain type of supremacy, not for their father-land, but for something else? Ooh, that’s a scary thought 😩

GilligansIsland - You tried it but it's so lame. Ha ha

Try again! I know you can do better...I just know you can.

Thank you for pointing this out. The Guardian wrote:

In a highly anticipated ruling, the court of arbitration for sport said there were “exceptional circumstances” surrounding Valieva’s case, and that banning her while it was ongoing “would cause her irreparable harm”.

What do think CAS was referring to, if not her age? Certainly not the color of her skin, I would think.

I am going by what WADA stated. I believe that organization is more au fait with the exceptions since it would have been part and parcel to the construction and upholding of the doping rules than a newspaper would be.