Russian ban worthless

Not surprised. WADA and the IOC have no teeth. Years down the line we'll probably find bribes were involved.

Not like the US and other countries doesn't have its fair share of dopers. Yet somehow we haven't been banned for 6 years nor have any of the countries on world athletics' good side.

Meanwhile at least one of their 3 female track Olympians lives and trains in the US since 2012, so who is really to blame if she tests positive? Not a fan of doping at all but at some point this banning entire countries business has to end

I am not sure it is worthless...they only have 10 Track and Field entries in Tokyo, instead of the typical 120 member team, so it is having an impact in some sports. The concern in this article is more that they now call themselves ROC or Russian Olympic Committee, so most commentators habitually refer to them as Russian athletes, and their uniforms now have the Russian Colours, whereas before they mostly ran in personal Nike uniforms!

They banned the state-ran Russian programs that were systematically doping. This is the Russian Olympic Committee. They have more morals and are playing by the rules everybody else is now. They won fairly.

track suits wrote:

They banned the state-ran Russian programs that were systematically doping. This is the Russian Olympic Committee. They have more morals and are playing by the rules everybody else is now. They won fairly.

Uh-huh. Right.

Russia's being banned has nothing to do with clean sport and everything to do with this global chess game played by kingmakers at WA trying to create a fall guy. There are other countries far more authoritarian with even worse reputations (China, Bahrain, Qatar, etc) making this ban all the more ridiculous. Who knows how many athletes we've missed out on these last 6 years pulling from a 140M+ population because they wouldn't have been cleared to compete.

Ban the coaches, shut down the alleged state doping, but no reason to ban totally unaffiliated independent athletes because of where they were born.

habs wrote:

Russia's being banned has nothing to do with clean sport and everything to do with this global chess game played by kingmakers at WA trying to create a fall guy. There are other countries far more authoritarian with even worse reputations (China, Bahrain, Qatar, etc) making this ban all the more ridiculous. Who knows how many athletes we've missed out on these last 6 years pulling from a 140M+ population because they wouldn't have been cleared to compete.

Ban the coaches, shut down the alleged state doping, but no reason to ban totally unaffiliated independent athletes because of where they were born.

Lol. So many wrong statements in one post.

WA didn't ban them for starters wrote:

habs wrote:

Russia's being banned has nothing to do with clean sport and everything to do with this global chess game played by kingmakers at WA trying to create a fall guy. There are other countries far more authoritarian with even worse reputations (China, Bahrain, Qatar, etc) making this ban all the more ridiculous. Who knows how many athletes we've missed out on these last 6 years pulling from a 140M+ population because they wouldn't have been cleared to compete.

Ban the coaches, shut down the alleged state doping, but no reason to ban totally unaffiliated independent athletes because of where they were born.

Lol. So many wrong statements in one post.

Yes, IAAF (now called WA) did vote 22-1 to ban the country of Russia from track and field in 2015. Obviously there are other organizations involved. If you take issue with the facts then say which ones instead of dismissing whole cloth.

Russia’s ban should have been 100% on Russian teams including relays. This “ban” is a joke and Putin and his cronies having big laughs at how they played the IOC, WA and other federations.