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legendary
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So the Russians were banned because they were allowed to use some of the banned substances. And at the same time, the British and American athletes were allowed to use these substances, due to their "medical conditions". Even before the hack, some people were complaining that the British cyclists were using banned substances. Now it is clearer.
legendary
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And in the above article Lada makes a good point:

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In response to the leak, WADA and various Western rags, including Reuters, lashed out, calling the anonymous hackers ‘a Russian cyber-espionage group.’ What’s disturbing, the same accusatory towards Russia material was published in Indian publication: link.

WADA and a whole slew of Western publications immediately announced that all the ‘medications’ taken by above athletes were ‘in advance filed with WADA in accordance with procedures and rules.’ Simone Biles tweeted that she suffers from ADHD and has to take drugs for her condition.

Who on earth are these pathological liars kidding? I wonder. Perhaps being pathological liars (much like Hillary Clinton) is in fact THEIR CONDITION?

So, the hard, internationally banned and classified as doping drugs taken at will by US athletes are legal, while the innocuous performance placebo, a heart restorative Meldonium invented in the USSR and taken by Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova lands her a 2-year suspension! Meanwhile, the completely and entirely clean of any drugs whatsoever Russian poll vaulter Elena Isinbayeva is banned together with entire Russian team with no chance of appeal. Even more interestingly, Simone Biles, healthy like a horse, can take drugs for her ADHD (imaginary or not), while Russian Paralympians whose very physical survival depends on certain drugs, get banned for their medical condition in violation of all laws and common decency!
legendary
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Prepare your pop-corn, folks:

#WADA Hacked, Williams Sisters, Simone Biles doping exposed
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/breaking-wada-hacked-williams-sisters-simone-biles-doping-leaked/

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They have so far disclosed the doping info on 4 US athletes: Rio Olympics gymnastics champion Simone Biles, Serena and Venus Williams (tennis) and Elena Delle Donne (basketball).

This is the text published on Fancy Bear site so far (info on more athletes and more countries expected):

Greetings citizens of the world. Allow us to introduce ourselves… We are Fancy Bears’ international hack team. We stand for fair play and clean sport.

We announce the start of #OpOlympics. We are going to tell you how Olympic medals are won. We hacked World Anti-Doping Agency databases and we were shocked with what we saw.

We will start with the U.S. team which has disgraced its name by tainted victories. We will also disclose exclusive information about other national Olympic teams later. Wait for sensational proof of famous athletes taking doping substances any time soon.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

Anonymous – #OpOlympics
American Athletes Caught Doping 2016-09-13

As promised we begin our disclosures. Today we’d like to tell you about the U.S. Olympic team and their dirty methods to win.

Just before the 2016 Summer Olympics the U.S. team was reported to be one of medal favorites while being on top of the Rio medal forecast. Besides, the USA is commonly known to be always ahead of the game.

As predicted, the USA dominated the 2016 Olympics medal count with 46 gold, 37 silver, 38 bronze for 121 total. The U.S. team played well but not fair.

After detailed studying of the hacked WADA databases we figured out that dozens of American athletes had tested positive. The Rio Olympic medalists regularly used illicit strong drugs justified by certificates of approval for therapeutic use. In other words they just got their licenses for doping. This is other evidence that WADA and IOC’s Medical and Scientific Department are corrupt and deceitful.
Simone Biles

Artistic gymnast Simone Biles is one of those American doping athletes. She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and ten-time world gold medalist. In August 2016, she tested positive after illicit methylphenidate, a psychostimulant, was detected in her sample. Moreover, Biles had been taking amphetamine for a while, according to the leaked data.
Serena & Venus Williams

Serena Williams, world’s top tennis player, is taking oxycodone and hydromorphone (opioids), prednisone, prednisolone, and methylprednisolone as well. Her sister Venus Williams is used to take prednisone, prednisolone, triamcinolone and formoterol.
Elena Delle Donne

American basketball star Elena Delle Donne’s drug test revealed that she had also used amphetamine. In addition, since 2014 she has been taking hydrocortisone that is also classified as doping.
 This is just the tip of the iceberg. Today’s sport is truly contaminated while the world is unaware of a large number of American doping athletes.

We call on experts, officials and journalists to carefully review the files we have got.

To be continued…

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legendary
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From
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/inspiring-belarus-carries-russian-flag-at-rio-paralympics/

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ADDED: I just learned from Life.ru that Belarus Paralympians advised in advance the Belorussian President Lukashenko of their intention to bring Russian flag to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Games, despite direct ban of Paralympic Committee. Lukashenko reportedly supported the idea: ‘If they decide to punish us, we are ready. We won’t sell out our brothers (Russians),’ said Lukashenko. The Russian flag was brought into the opening ceremony in secret by Andrey Fomochkin on his body. He unveiled the flag when Belarus team entered the Rio stadium. Belorussian papers touted Fomochkin’s act as a real man’s deed.

Newest info: Paralympic Committee confiscated Russian flag and began investigation into the incident. It already punished the Athletic Director of Belarus team Andrey Fomochkin, denying his Rio accreditation.

However, both Andrey Fomochkin and Belorussian Paralympians won something already, which no money or status can buy: they won the hearts of Russians. Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Fomochkin a hero. Belarus government spokesman said that the country was 100% behind its athletes. There is no proof of any wrongdoing by Russian para-athletes, he added.


Meanwhile Russia is preparing a number of lawsuits and personal damages legal actions in European courts against Paralympic Committee, WADA, USADA, Lord Craven and McLaren. Russia also repeatedly said that Paralympics and WADA took the wrong turn and that they need to be reformed.

But again, I must stress that the pressure on Russia will continue until after the 16th – the date of the Duma elections (see below re. my upcoming Russian Elections Earth Shift Report!).

More pics of the Russian flag carried during opening ceremony by Belarus team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDxAU1z3Hg

Bravo!
legendary
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Belorussia takes up Russian flag at Paralympics. Thank you, brothers.


legendary
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I didnt have a clue regarding these information you have given regarding the ban of Russian athletes in RIO, i thought the WADA caught an elaborate plan to cheat and banned many athletes and only a few were allowed to participate and that too with extensive testing.  If that is the case then your theory stands true that it is yet another battle against Russia.

Alas, the Olympics - a sports event that should have been bringing people closer, has been turned into yet another battlefield of the hybrid war. Russia was slated to be banned completely from the games, and it was only to thank to the personal courage of Thomas Bach that at least part of the team got to participate, albeit under constant mobbing and psychological pressure

A fragment from the above:

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I have to say that Russian athletes pulled a miracle in Rio, despite being under constant psychological pressure and attack, amid humiliation and anti-Russian hysteria. Russian teams in various sports arriving in Rio were denied entry into the Olympic Village, where Russia paid in advance for the entire building to house its team. They were forced to move from one hotel to another, without access to training facilities, awaiting the decision whether they would be let inside. The same swimmer Yulia Efimova was forced to prepare for competition in a hotel paddling pool, amidst sweaty bodies of fat tourists and screaming children! And still, Russia managed this result

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Out of 270 Russian athletes that were allowed to compete in Rio, 103 Russian athletes came home with medals!

Russia is preparing a set of lawsuits against WADA and against the perpetrators of the ban.  Russian Investigative Committee sent requests to, among other countries, Canada to produce the evidence, presented as the foundation for prosecution of Russia as a state - Russian Prosecutor General would like to have an open case, where, if there was indeed were any guilty officials in Russia, that they would get their due punishment. So far the international organisations refused to provide such evidence.

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Christa | August 25, 2016 at 2:42 pm

Great article Lada, loved every bit of it, text, photos and videos!😉

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Great photos of the Russians and Ukrainians together, gives one hope for the future!

I was lucky to be able to watch Mr. Putin’s speech live this afternoon! And wow, what beautiful flowers everyone received, not to mention the State Award that the medallists received!
If someone wants to read the transcript, here is the one from the Kremlin in English:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52765

;-))

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    Lada Ray | August 25, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    Thanks for the link, Christa.
    This is a short video of Putin receiving Russian gold medalists in the Kremlin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idc1vp7Z48w

    All medalists get new white BMWs.
    Paralympians will have their own competition, and they’ll receive same awards for wins they would have gotten if they won in paralympics.

    This is rarely said aloud, but y’all will be interested to know that funding for prizes, cars and such, comes from ‘generous’ Russian oligarchs, whom Putin asked to ‘kindly contribute.’😉
legendary
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Since I mentioned Ukraine in my last post, there is an interesting, uplifting, Ukrainian vector from the Rio Olympics:

Fragments from Earth Shift and 4D Hybrid War: #RioOlympics Lessons and Next Moves by Russia

First in connection to one of the Steroid Sisters (was mentioned earlier in this thread):

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Serena Williams standing next to her closest competitor Russian Maria Sharapova. Both are world’s top tennis players on approximately the same level of fitness; both have been in sport for a long time. As they say, find the crucial difference in their appearance. Who is more likely to dope of the two? Meanwhile, Sharapova is under a 2-year ban for using the internationally recognized neutral placebo Meldonium, while Williams, who successfully evaded being tested for years, was in Rio enjoying herself. Incidentally, the reason she lost in the very first game to an obscure Ukrainian player is because this time she couldn’t risk it and stopped using steroids early on, which got her to Rio on a massive down swing. When Williams lost to the Ukrainian girl, the sold out Ukrainian government and various Kiev officials were apologizing to the US for their athlete besting the famous Williams! Below, read more on how badly Kiev treats its athletes and what will come out of it pretty soon.

Now, some of the more uplifting fragments:

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I pointed out previously that the only way to resolve this is for Russia to organize her own Eurasian Games, or Friendship Games, or to resurrect the alternative Good Will Games, while abandoning the Olympics. My prediction: Russians won’t pull the plug or make many drastic moves before 2018, it being a pivotal year in human development.

And even then, Russians will be very careful not to upset the balance too much. My opinion: Olympics are dead and should be transformed into something better and more forward-looking. Russians intend to work with IOC, because Thomas Bach and many IOC members voted against Russian ban, not allowing IAAF and Americans to dictate to them what to do. Incidentally, two Ukrainian members of IOC, who both are former Soviet Olympic champions from Kiev, voted against banning the Russian team.

And the following is what gives me hope for the long-suffering people of the former Ukraine:

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Russian and Ukrainian athletes in Rio embrace and celebrate victories together

During Rio Games, the internet got flooded with pictures of Russian and Ukrainian athletes hugging and carrying signs of friendship. Just can’t resist posting some of them, because in my view they celebrate the true spirit of Olympics, the way it should be. And they also reflect the true attitude of normal Ukrainians towards Russians:







Compare this to US swimmers’ snubbing of the Russian Efimova on the podium.

And here’s official Kiev’s reaction to all this hugging and mutual celebrating. Kiev officials branded these Ukrainian athletes ‘traitors to Ukraine.’ They threatened to pull their financing and state support. There were ugly threats of bodily harm and other hysteria. Who treats this way one’s country’s athletes? We all know that the Kiev junta is in fact Idiocracy plus. We also know that the only reason the Kiev regime is still around is because US and EU prop it up. I can tell you what the outcome of such attitude will be: many Ukrainian athletes have already moved to Russia. Now even more Ukrainian Olympians will ask for asylum and/or citizenship in Russia.

And finally, a short fragment from the comments to the report:

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Gary Redke | August 25, 2016 at 12:51 pm

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To see the Ukrainian and Russian athletes embracing each other made this terrible Olympics worthwhile. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the meeting of the Kiev junta seeing these athletes hugging each other.

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    Lada Ray | August 25, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    When they saw all that hugging in Kiev, there was widespread panic and hysterics – have it from many reliable sources. The panic was in the West as well – ‘what, all our efforts to clash Russia and Ukraine faaaaailed???!!’

    Yeah, being a fly on the wall at their meetings, to have a laugh, would be fun.

    Junta is beginning to implode big time. Lots of indications – will talk about it in THE CRIMEA FACTOR.
legendary
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Regarding athletes such as Yana Egorian and Mikhail Aloyan competing for Russia, I want to remind everyone that Russia is considered as the successor state to the USSR. That is why some of the athletes who were born in the former USSR chose to represent Russia. How can this be compared to the Somalis and Arabs competing for the Great Fruitain?

Nearly all former Sowjet states are hating their communist past (Russia included - oh the irony). And the athletes are moving because of the $$ or rather Rubel and not because of their past communistic brotherhood.
Everything else is just wishful thinking/propaganda.
legendary
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Regarding athletes such as Yana Egorian and Mikhail Aloyan competing for Russia, I want to remind everyone that Russia is considered as the successor state to the USSR. That is why some of the athletes who were born in the former USSR chose to represent Russia. How can this be compared to the Somalis and Arabs competing for the Great Fruitain?
legendary
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Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).


You're not right. Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.

Could you provide a list, please?

Saying that an athlete from Belarus or Ukraine or Lithuania is foreign to Russia is like saying that an athlete from Texas is foreign to USA. Most of them would have either had a dual citizenship anyway of have ended up one the wrong side of the border when the 1991 coup d'etat happened and USSR fell apart.




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Some athletes who didn't born in Russia, but represented in this country in Olympics :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit_Chakvetadze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teymuraz_Gabashvili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Lesun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donata_Rim%C5%A1ait%C4%97
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seda_Tutkhalyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Egorian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Aloyan
There only small part of them. Mostly of these faucet earlier represented their native countries, but later they decided to move to Russia because of financial reasons and for better conditions of infrastructure. As you can see, many of athletes born after USSR collapse, so, they had only one citizenship. So, now representing Russia when they can participate under native country flag is mostly chasing for bigger money.

Well everyone is doing this. And right now Russia needs every prestige it can get her hands on.
Buying good athletes is a easy way to do it.
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I didnt have a clue regarding these information you have given regarding the ban of Russian athletes in RIO, i thought the WADA caught an elaborate plan to cheat and banned many athletes and only a few were allowed to participate and that too with extensive testing.  If that is the case then your theory stands true that it is yet another battle against Russia.
legendary
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Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).


You're not right. Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.

Could you provide a list, please?

Saying that an athlete from Belarus or Ukraine or Lithuania is foreign to Russia is like saying that an athlete from Texas is foreign to USA. Most of them would have either had a dual citizenship anyway of have ended up one the wrong side of the border when the 1991 coup d'etat happened and USSR fell apart.



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Some athletes who didn't born in Russia, but represented in this country in Olympics :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit_Chakvetadze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teymuraz_Gabashvili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Lesun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donata_Rim%C5%A1ait%C4%97
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seda_Tutkhalyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Egorian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Aloyan
There only small part of them. Mostly of these faucet earlier represented their native countries, but later they decided to move to Russia because of financial reasons and for better conditions of infrastructure. As you can see, many of athletes born after USSR collapse, so, they had only one citizenship. So, now representing Russia when they can participate under native country flag is mostly chasing for bigger money.

Judging by the names, 2 Georgians, 3 Armenians and possibly 2 of Jewish origin. Opening some random names:

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Yana Egorian was born on 20 December 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. When she was 6 years old, she moved to Khimki, Moscow Oblast, where she engaged in fencing under the guidance of Sergei Semin. Later, Yelena Jemayeva also started to train her. She chose sabre fencing as her specialty.

But, wait - there's more, she was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (!), and I'd love to see where her parents were born and of what nationality they are. As you see the ties are close.

Armenians and Russians, by the way, have close ties - there are a lot of Armenians among the prominent public figures in Russia. So what?

Another one:

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Full name    Mikhail Surenovich Aloyan
Born    August 23, 1988 (age 28)
Bambakashat, Soviet Armenia

But, wait - there is more. He is from a Kurdish-Ezit family. His family moved to Novokuznetsk in Russia in 1997 (he was 9 years old then), where he started in boxing. So it's not like he moved to Russia for the sports contract reason.

Another one:

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Teymuraz Besikovich Gabashvili

Born    23 May 1985 (age 31)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

His family moved to Moscow when he was 9 years old.

So all this so far reinforces my earlier statement that they are not foreigners in Russia. 25 years since 1991 is too short a time span to make them foreigners. Wink

Oh, and and saying that Belorussian is not a Russian is an absurdity:

Aleksander Leonidovich Lesun
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Nationality     Belarus (until 2009)
 Russia (since 2009)
Born    1 July 1988 (age 28)
Barysaw, Belarus SSR, Soviet Union

So far he is the first of the random sample from above, who moved to Russia for career reasons, but still, he was born in that one country, called USSR, and, as you remember, before USSR there was no such thing as Belorussia, which is another of Lenin's creations - there was the Minsk Governorate in Russia.

In this regard a quote from another thread, from another forum looks relevant (it's about Ukraine):

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- In 1992 three crooks (Yeltsyn, Kravchuk, Shushkevitch) with Washington’s blessing have separated Ukraine and Belarus’ from Russia and declared them separate countries. So, they have been called separate countries for 24 years (can 24 years be compared to centuries?). The people living in Eastern Ukraine (including myself) felt like their Motherland has been stolen from them and found themselves living in a foreign and not friendly country of Ukraine. However Western Ukrainians were happy. (And since then what makes Western Ukrainians happy is bad for Eastern Ukrainians and vise verse).

legendary
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Slava Ukraini!
Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).


You're not right. Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.

Could you provide a list, please?

Saying that an athlete from Belarus or Ukraine or Lithuania is foreign to Russia is like saying that an athlete from Texas is foreign to USA. Most of them would have either had a dual citizenship anyway of have ended up one the wrong side of the border when the 1991 coup d'etat happened and USSR fell apart.




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Some athletes who didn't born in Russia, but represented in this country in Olympics :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit_Chakvetadze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teymuraz_Gabashvili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Lesun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donata_Rim%C5%A1ait%C4%97
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seda_Tutkhalyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Egorian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Aloyan
There only small part of them. Mostly of these faucet earlier represented their native countries, but later they decided to move to Russia because of financial reasons and for better conditions of infrastructure. As you can see, many of athletes born after USSR collapse, so, they had only one citizenship. So, now representing Russia when they can participate under native country flag is mostly chasing for bigger money.
legendary
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Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).


You're not right. Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.

Could you provide a list, please?

Saying that an athlete from Belarus or Ukraine or Lithuania is foreign to Russia is like saying that an athlete from Texas is foreign to USA. Most of them would have either had a dual citizenship anyway of have ended up one the wrong side of the border when the 1991 coup d'etat happened and USSR fell apart.




Earth Shift and 4D Hybrid War: #RioOlympics Lessons and Next Moves by Russia
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/earth-shift-and-4d-hybrid-war-rioolympics-lessons-and-next-moves-by-russia

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I have to say that Russians missed this, like they missed Ukraine. Just like in the case of Ukraine, Russians simply couldn’t fathom that anyone could stoop this low.

In the fight to preserve the failing Anglo-American Empire and what’s left of the fading ‘US full spectrum dominance’ there is simply no limit as to how low they will stoop. This has to be understood fully. Instead of abandoning the failed model and moving forward with the entire world, the lowly beings that are behind all this will fight for as long as they are allowed to get away with it; in a typical way of all bandits and criminals they’ll try to slow down the process of the collapse or take everyone down with them.

Latest intel

Russian PM Medvedev announced that Russia has withdrawn her financial support of WADA, for now till the end of 2016.

Russian government is also filing civil lawsuits for damages against IAAF (Intl Athletic Federation), WADA and IPC (Intl. Paralympic  Committee). Individual claims for damages by each athlete are coming too.

My take on this: sure, go ahead and file lawsuits. There will be compensation, probably pretty good one. But it’ll take years and the process of paying out said compensation will be slowed down to a crawl. This is a good thing to do, since lawsuits are dreaded by any organization in the West. But this really is a stop-gap measure. It isn’t a real solution because those who did this were after something much bigger than breaking the lives of poor Russian athletes: they were after the big score in the global political game. They are attempting to prolong the very survival of the dying US Empire. What’s a trifle like a few tens, or even hundred million dollars here and there when you are in the Grand Chess Game.

During the Rio Games Russian poll vaulter Elena Isinbayeva was elected to IOC by the majority vote of the Rio Olympic athletes. This is a stunning result since the two-time Olympic champion and multiple-time world champion Isinbayeva, who never was implicated in any drug scandals and who just came off her maternity leave to return to the Olympics, is now under blanket ban by IAAF and WADA, along with all Russian track-and-field team.

Why was she elected then? Isinbayeva was indignant at the ban and she promised to sue. This was, let’s just say, a bribe of sorts to appease her, a consolation prize for one of the most famous athletes of the last few decades. This was also a small bone thrown to Russia. It is a sort of IOC’s olive branch and a way to signal that IOC is not fully condoning IAAF/IPC/WADA actions.

Since most of IOC and individual sports federations were against the blanket ban, Russians would attempt to continue working with them. The exceptions are track-and-field IAAF and the intl. heavy lifting and rowing federations, plus, partially, swimming federation. While Russians will try to work with them for a while, this again is a stop-gap measure.

I said previously that drastic moves to change the corrupt nature of the sports and Olympics will be done by Russia later, most likely after 2018. For now, Russia will be on the defensive and strictly on response mode.

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legendary
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Slava Ukraini!
All Russophobes, please have a good look at the medal table:



Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).


You're not right. Russia had many athletes who didn't born in Russia. Mostly of them from ex Soviet countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and others. Russia gave them citizenship and big money.
legendary
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All Russophobes, please have a good look at the medal table:



Despite the Americans and their cronies banning almost one-third of the Russian athletes, the Federation still finished 4th in the overall medal table. And they didn't used a single foreign-born athlete, unlike the Great Fruitain (less than 10% of the athletes were ethnic Brits).

legendary
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A quote of Lada Ray's reply to my comment on her blog, which sums the situation really well:

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I’d love to write a separate article on this as the topic deserves it, but have only time for a side note. Hope more people read it!

Here goes:

I really hate to say I said so, but I did predict they would uphold the ban. Maddie of 1EarthUnited was just emailing me with this question a few days ago and I’d confirmed not to hold her breath for a favorable outcome. They got them (excuse me) by the balls and they won’t let them go. Sorry.

Russians screwed up the Olympics/paralympics/sports front of this hybrid 4D war big time – as I warned since my first report on Rio Olympics and doping in sports in 2015. Russians, very typically for them, thought no one could fall this low and that athletes would stand with them. HOW INCREDIBLY NAIVE!!!

The athletes are just as sold out as politicians. They don’t care and won’t care how they get their medal count – they just want as many of them as possible.

A similar naive blooper was made in regards to Ukraine in 2013-14 and the coinciding Sochi Olympics. As I mentioned before, the only thing that allowed for 2/3s of Russian team to be in Rio was IOC’s Thomas Bach personal strength and incredible political savvy.

As I said: the only way out is to organize OWN EURASIAN GAMES, OR RESURRECT The GOOD WILL GAMES. PERIOD! And stop supporting IOC, FIFA, WADA and other crap.
Now that Chinese lost to UK they might suddenly become more amenable to the idea of alternative games!

But again, my firm prediction: Russians will be able to do it only after 2018 elections. Just you wait! Russian 2018 World Cup will be attacked next – this is their real goal, which coincides with Russian elections. The ultimate aim is to humiliate Russian power and therefore make Putin look inept and weak before elections!!!
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How much those who banned them made in bribes? Or were they forced to ban them (releasing their past corruptions? Physical threats)? What is sad is for those who are clean... Collective punishments... And specially what the athletes had to overcome in the case of the Paralympic... Disgusting.
legendary
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If Russian athletes are banned for (inconclusive) drug usage, then the American team must also be banned for allowing trans-sexuals such as Serena Williams to compete in the women's games. Most of the competitions in the women's games were a farce. Masculine trans-sexual athletes such as Serena Williams and Caster Semenya used their unfair advantage to win medals.
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