Feetstillbare wrote:
Could lead to a blanket Russian ban (all Olympic events included). They have been banned from track and field.
It was a soft ban. Russian athletes were being approved by the IAAF for Rio on an individual basis with no way to know how one qualified or didn't. Most IAAF events would have had Russian athletes.
No other sports banned athletes until this request by WADA. Again, WADA has no authority. It's up to the sports federations to do a ban. I doubt it will happen.
These games won't mean anything.
Just like 1984 all over again.
Wasn't there a book about this?
WW3 about to begin
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
Feetstillbare wrote:Could lead to a blanket Russian ban (all Olympic events included). They have been banned from track and field.
It was a soft ban. Russian athletes were being approved by the IAAF for Rio on an individual basis with no way to know how one qualified or didn't. Most IAAF events would have had Russian athletes.
Only one athlete, out of 360+ who applied, got IAAF approval: Darya Klishina. The terms of approval were: training outside of Russia and tested by other than RUSADA. Effectively it is a hard ban,
So Russia basically has to make a deal and get someone else in trouble similar to Justin G and be back in the good graces.