Russian doping: Russia athletes remain suspended by IAAF

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Russian doping: Russia athletes remain suspended by IAAF

26 November 2017 Athletics

Russian athletes will remain banned from international competition after the IAAF said the country had not yet done enough to clamp down on doping.

Athletics' governing body banned Russia in November 2015 over evidence of state-sponsored doping.

The decision comes before December's International Olympic Committee meeting over the country's participation at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Some Russians can compete as neutrals if they satisfy testing criteria.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/42129521

[JonLP24]

1. They will cheat at anything

[Brother Buzz]

2. Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist's Notes Bolster Case Against Russia

Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist's Notes Bolster Case Against Russia

Source: New York Times


The International Olympic Committee’s decision next week on how to punish Russia will be informed
by diaries seen exclusively by The New York Times.

By REBECCA R. RUIZNOV. 28, 2017

The chemist has kept a diary most of his life. His daily habit is to record where he went, whom he talked to and what he ate. At the top of each entry, he scrawls his blood pressure.

Two of his hardback journals, each embossed with the calendar year and filled with handwritten notes from a Waterman pen, are now among the critical pieces of evidence that could result in Russia being absent from the next Olympic Games.

The chemist is Grigory Rodchenkov, who spent years helping Russia’s athletes gain an edge by using banned substances. His diaries cataloging 2014 and 2015 — his final years as Russia’s antidoping lab chief before he fled to the United States — provide a new level of detail about Russia’s elaborate cheating at the last Winter Games and the extent to which, he says, the nation’s government and Olympic officials were involved.

His contemporaneous notes, seen exclusively by The New York Times, speak to a key issue for Olympic officials: the state’s involvement in the massive sports fraud. In recent days, it has become clear that the notes bolster Rodchenkov’s credibility in the eyes of the International Olympic Committee and are likely to compel the group to issue severe penalties.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/sports/olympics/russia-doping.html

[GaYellowDawg]

3. My very favorite moment of the Rio Olympics...

... was when Lilly King called out Yulia Efimova for cheating, and then beat her ass in the pool. Too bad every cheating Russian can't get their ass whipped like that.