uhm, er.. wrote:
I would not be surprised if they never stopped post-Soviet Union. Why would they have stopped?
Of course they didn't.
uhm, er.. wrote:In fact, I doubt they stopped. It's just taken all these years to catch them out.
Exactly.
uhm, er.. wrote:Bread and circuses. Millions of Russian sports fans duped into thinking there athletes were superior. Sheeesh.
Well, the irony here is that the Russians were actually not superior, at least not to other big countries. See e.g. the medal count of the 2012 Olympics. So either:
a) there is also systematic doping in China, the UK and US etc.
or
b) systematic doping is irrelevant.
I'll go with a), supported by the observations of the 80s.