Interesting article
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/sports/russia-doping.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Another one.. wrote:
also an interesting article. Pay close attention to this tidbit:
"Here’s why: The others engaged in state-sponsored doping, which is certainly effective but easier to crack. You catch one athlete, or the head of the anti-doping lab spills the beans to the New York Times, and the whole operation is exposed
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sdut-zeigler-doj-russia-doping-probe-hypocrisy-2016may19-story.html
runnER/DR wrote:
Another one.. wrote:
also an interesting article. Pay close attention to this tidbit:
"Here’s why: The others engaged in state-sponsored doping, which is certainly effective but easier to crack. You catch one athlete, or the head of the anti-doping lab spills the beans to the New York Times, and the whole operation is exposed
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sdut-zeigler-doj-russia-doping-probe-hypocrisy-2016may19-story.html
This article is a joke lol. USADA does everything it can to catch dopers within its jurisdiction. It won't catch everyone because a lack of resources as well as limits of testing. But it's trying to catch dopers. USADA Has banned some of it's best athletes sne coaches.
RUSADA on the other hand was actively assisting its athletes in doping and covering it up. What a joke of an article.
Cold War Politics is bad Mkay? wrote:
How is State sponsored doping in Russia worse than Entrepreneurial doping in the US?
respect my authoritaaaaaa wrote:
Cold War Politics is bad Mkay? wrote:
How is State sponsored doping in Russia worse than Entrepreneurial doping in the US?
Is this really a question? Forgetting the shear scale of it. It is the equivalent of asking how is police selling illegal drugs worse than gangs selling drugs.
Another one.. wrote:
also an interesting article. Pay close attention to this tidbit:
"Here’s why: The others engaged in state-sponsored doping, which is certainly effective but easier to crack. You catch one athlete, or the head of the anti-doping lab spills the beans to the New York Times, and the whole operation is exposed.
The United States has countless underground gurus juicing athletes, all wondering what the other is doing and ramping up their drug regimens accordingly so their clients can prevail in a chemistry-tinged sports culture. You bust an anti-aging center in Florida and you nab a dozen baseball players, but you don’t get the hundreds of others who, it should be noted, learn from the mistakes of the less fortunate and improve their stealth methods even more."
Cold War Politics is bad Mkay? wrote:
How is State sponsored doping in Russia worse than Entrepreneurial doping in the US?
Evan Gelical wrote:
It's awful how we treat Russia. They've done so much for conservatives and Trump and the GOP.
Leftistssuk wrote:
Evan Gelical wrote:
It's awful how we treat Russia. They've done so much for conservatives and Trump and the GOP.
Brain-dead-CNN-watcher alert!
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
Another one.. wrote:
also an interesting article. Pay close attention to this tidbit:
"Here’s why: The others engaged in state-sponsored doping, which is certainly effective but easier to crack. You catch one athlete, or the head of the anti-doping lab spills the beans to the New York Times, and the whole operation is exposed.
The United States has countless underground gurus juicing athletes, all wondering what the other is doing and ramping up their drug regimens accordingly so their clients can prevail in a chemistry-tinged sports culture. You bust an anti-aging center in Florida and you nab a dozen baseball players, but you don’t get the hundreds of others who, it should be noted, learn from the mistakes of the less fortunate and improve their stealth methods even more."
So we should not make a big deal about the Russian doping we know about because of an authors assumed existence of a massive underground doping cell program in the US. Btw there are these cells but not everyone is participating. And USADA is not sabotaging drug tests.
I don't think Russia has taken any steps to correct the issue and has offered ridiculous levels of denial and blame-shifting.