Grits
06-16-2015, 11:46 AM
This could go anywhere. Up in Off Topic General, or here, in Sports. Either way. We're the problem..
Russians compete in racewalking in the Olympic Games. They liken these folks to our Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. The champions get a house and a car. Better, actually, ours don't get a house.
One unfortunate problem. They're cheating; they're still blood doping. They didn't even have an agency to investigate such ... until 2008 ... so go figure.
How on earth is it OUR FAULT???? :lol:
These folks are crazier than rats in a coffee can. They still hate us. And I don't use that word (hate) lightly. :lol:
In this morning's NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/olympics/where-racewalking-is-king-the-antidoping-officials-are-busy.html?partner=rss&
Alexander Parshutkin, a 51-year-old former defense ministry contractor, said: “I think it’s all just once again people out to get Russia. It’s America. They want to weaken us. It’s all connected with politics.
”The public perception in Russia that antidoping measures are a form of western subterfuge dates to the Cold War, when Soviet research laboratories operated under heavy secrecy, making allegations difficult to substantiate. When athletes were caught doping at international competitions, it was often depicted by state propaganda as part of a Western conspiracy to smear the Soviet Union. This attitude persisted into the 1990s and 2000s, and Russia lacked a national antidoping agency until 2008, when Rusada was founded.
Russians compete in racewalking in the Olympic Games. They liken these folks to our Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. The champions get a house and a car. Better, actually, ours don't get a house.
One unfortunate problem. They're cheating; they're still blood doping. They didn't even have an agency to investigate such ... until 2008 ... so go figure.
How on earth is it OUR FAULT???? :lol:
These folks are crazier than rats in a coffee can. They still hate us. And I don't use that word (hate) lightly. :lol:
In this morning's NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/olympics/where-racewalking-is-king-the-antidoping-officials-are-busy.html?partner=rss&
Alexander Parshutkin, a 51-year-old former defense ministry contractor, said: “I think it’s all just once again people out to get Russia. It’s America. They want to weaken us. It’s all connected with politics.
”The public perception in Russia that antidoping measures are a form of western subterfuge dates to the Cold War, when Soviet research laboratories operated under heavy secrecy, making allegations difficult to substantiate. When athletes were caught doping at international competitions, it was often depicted by state propaganda as part of a Western conspiracy to smear the Soviet Union. This attitude persisted into the 1990s and 2000s, and Russia lacked a national antidoping agency until 2008, when Rusada was founded.