Because Russia no longer has an accredited lab since they were caught running a massive doping and coverup program. Which was my original point. I understand why you CCCP dittoheads like to ignore the main issue, which is constant Russian cheating.
I find it hard to believe that a Russian skater doesn’t know she’s doping. They teach them early. Why wouldn’t a half intelligent person ask what pill are you giving me. Take the pill- pay the price.
If children are completing on the same playing field as adults, they should be treated the same as the adults they're competing against. If she doesn't want to be on the world stage, she doesn't have to be. This is voluntary.
But if she pisses hot, she's going to be heavily scrutinized just like Shelby Houlihan or ShaCarri Richardson.
This was probably the most grotesque display of abuse in sports in real time I've ever seen. It was sickening. Honestly the only thing I found satisfying about it was Trusova reading the riot act to Eteri when it was all done.
God only knows what those girls have endured. The whole thing was gross. They were half the size of their competitors. I wonder just how small and skeletal they are in real life. They are starved and given hormone blockers. Skaters can have long careers well into their twenties and even early thirties. Russian skaters "retire" by seventeen. It's Karolyis in gymnastics all over again. What they are doing to these girls is despicable.
I think about what I've seen in high school cross-country and track too. There are programs that actively starve girls and so many of them walk away with eating disorders, but we fawn over them because they are nationally ranked every year. There was a program when I was in high school that competed at a track meet I was at. Several of the girls ran sub 11:00 3200s on the same team--(which would have made each of them state champions in the state I competed in, but for them it was good enough for like 6th runner on their team). They looked pre-pubescent--not just skinny--pre-pubescent. The coach looked like a monster lumbering around the infield. I had a horrible feeling about all of it.
Later in college I asked my coaches about why they never recruited from that school, they shook their heads knowingly and explained rumors they had heard. Then I asked how parents could buy into such a horrible system. "Everyone just wants their daughter to run like (the fastest girl on the team at the time). They just get obsessive about it."
Please get your heads out of your a**es. one of the greatest distance runners we've had in recent years was so clearly groomed by his coach since his freshman year of high school. Read between the damn lines! The coach weaseled his way into the athlete's life and his family's life and suddenly he was dictating which doctors the athletes went to and what "testosterone medication" he was on. The family bought into everything because of his name, and because he probably manipulated them. He had a college coached fired, FIRED so that the athlete, who he dictated could not attend another school, attended that one. But we acted like it was Obi Wan and Luke. It was abuse from day one.
If children are completing on the same playing field as adults, they should be treated the same as the adults they're competing against. If she doesn't want to be on the world stage, she doesn't have to be. This is voluntary.
But if she pisses hot, she's going to be heavily scrutinized just like Shelby Houlihan or ShaCarri Richardson.
That runs against ever social and legal law in the western world.
If children are completing on the same playing field as adults, they should be treated the same as the adults they're competing against. If she doesn't want to be on the world stage, she doesn't have to be. This is voluntary.
But if she pisses hot, she's going to be heavily scrutinized just like Shelby Houlihan or ShaCarri Richardson.
That runs against ever social and legal law in the western world.
But you're OK with her being forcefully trained 60 hours a week like a circus animal. Nice.
This was probably the most grotesque display of abuse in sports in real time I've ever seen. It was sickening. Honestly the only thing I found satisfying about it was Trusova reading the riot act to Eteri when it was all done.
God only knows what those girls have endured. The whole thing was gross. They were half the size of their competitors. I wonder just how small and skeletal they are in real life. They are starved and given hormone blockers. Skaters can have long careers well into their twenties and even early thirties. Russian skaters "retire" by seventeen. It's Karolyis in gymnastics all over again. What they are doing to these girls is despicable.
I think about what I've seen in high school cross-country and track too. There are programs that actively starve girls and so many of them walk away with eating disorders, but we fawn over them because they are nationally ranked every year. There was a program when I was in high school that competed at a track meet I was at. Several of the girls ran sub 11:00 3200s on the same team--(which would have made each of them state champions in the state I competed in, but for them it was good enough for like 6th runner on their team). They looked pre-pubescent--not just skinny--pre-pubescent. The coach looked like a monster lumbering around the infield. I had a horrible feeling about all of it.
Later in college I asked my coaches about why they never recruited from that school, they shook their heads knowingly and explained rumors they had heard. Then I asked how parents could buy into such a horrible system. "Everyone just wants their daughter to run like (the fastest girl on the team at the time). They just get obsessive about it."
Please get your heads out of your a**es. one of the greatest distance runners we've had in recent years was so clearly groomed by his coach since his freshman year of high school. Read between the damn lines! The coach weaseled his way into the athlete's life and his family's life and suddenly he was dictating which doctors the athletes went to and what "testosterone medication" he was on. The family bought into everything because of his name, and because he probably manipulated them. He had a college coached fired, FIRED so that the athlete, who he dictated could not attend another school, attended that one. But we acted like it was Obi Wan and Luke. It was abuse from day one.
I am surprised nobody has picked up this from the report:
78. On the contrary, the Athlete failed to provide evidence that her explanation is “most likely”: a) First, there is no independent and/or documentary evidence that the Athlete’s grandfather used Trimetazidine. There is, without limitation, no proof of purchase, no underlying medical records, and no prescription;
I haven't found anything in the report where any of the respondents (Ms. Valieva, RUSADA, ROC) address this significant problem with their contamination theory. They just restate that the grandfather takes this medication (117).
Reading DADC's* statements in the report it comes across as similar to so many other cases where the national body takes the approach: Give us something, anything, that we can cling on to and we will fill the air with doubt and confusion and wear the other side down until the eventually give up.
I am surprised nobody has picked up this from the report:
78. On the contrary, the Athlete failed to provide evidence that her explanation is “most likely”: a) First, there is no independent and/or documentary evidence that the Athlete’s grandfather used Trimetazidine. There is, without limitation, no proof of purchase, no underlying medical records, and no prescription;
I haven't found anything in the report where any of the respondents (Ms. Valieva, RUSADA, ROC) address this significant problem with their contamination theory. They just restate that the grandfather takes this medication (117).
Reading DADC's* statements in the report it comes across as similar to so many other cases where the national body takes the approach: Give us something, anything, that we can cling on to and we will fill the air with doubt and confusion and wear the other side down until the eventually give up.
* DADC: RUSADA Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee
Silly chap.
That was what Wada said on not as you imply CAS.
The hearing in question was not charged with examining this …. was it ?!
She only learned about the test results on February 7 and filed her appeal one day later, while she was in China. It's understandable that a 15-year old girl does not carry her grandfather's medication records with her as she travels. So, the WADA/ISU/IOC is being more than a little disingenuous when raised that issue.
However, she will eventually have to document this if she wants to be cleared.
She only learned about the test results on February 7 and filed her appeal one day later, while she was in China. It's understandable that a 15-year old girl does not carry her grandfather's medication records with her as she travels. So, the WADA/ISU/IOC is being more than a little disingenuous when raised that issue.
However, she will eventually have to document this if she wants to be cleared.
Correct and anyway such was not to be examined by the hearing.