Icarus - Russian Doping Doc

[stone988]

LOL this is a witch hunt and mostly bullshit, The USA has the best "doping" Doctors! Not Russia or China or anyone else. Russians are easy targets and no one likes Putin. The Olympic committees and all associated entities are corrupt organizations who are a crooked as they come. As interesting as it is to watch and to learn the USA and other western counties are far more guilty of doping and are better at it then the Russians

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The International Olympic Committee says Russian athletes will be able to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals.

The IOC, which also suspended the Russian Olympic committee and IOC member Alexander Zhukov, says some competitors will be invited to participate as an “Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR)” without their national flag or anthem.

Russia could refuse the offer and boycott the games.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said it would be humiliating for Russia to compete without national symbols.

The IOC also imposed a fine of $15 million on the Russian Olympic committee.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C.
Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia’s Olympic team has been barred from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The country’s government officials are forbidden to attend, its flag will not be displayed at the opening ceremony and its anthem will not sound. Any athletes from Russia who receive special dispensation to compete will do so as individuals wearing a neutral uniform, and the official record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.

That was the punishment issued Tuesday to the proud sports juggernaut that has long used the Olympics as a show of global force but was exposed for systematic doping in previously unfathomable ways. The International Olympic Committee, after completing its own prolonged investigations that reiterated what had been known for more than a year, handed Russia penalties for doping so severe they were without precedent in Olympics history. IOC suspends Russian NOC and creates a path for clean individual athletes to compete in PyeongChang 2018 under the Olympic Flag

The ruling cemented that the nation was guilty of executing an extensive state-backed doping program. The scheme was rivaled perhaps only by the notorious program conducted by East Germany throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.

Now the sports world will wait to see how Russia responds. Some Russian officials have threatened to boycott if the I.O.C. delivered such a severe punishment.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Eman]

As interesting as it is to watch and to learn the USA and other western counties are far more guilty of doping and are better at it then the Russians

What evidence do you have of this?

 

[MindlessWork]

What about China? They are just as bad.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[RealET]

Name me one Russian Olympic athlete.

Now name me one American Olympic athlete.

Exactly. American athletes bring in money. They’re more known that’s why they can get away with shit.

You guys take steroids you guys know how much of an edge it gives you. Now if 99% of Russian athlete took steroids, how does US, Jamaica, UK, China keep up if they never touched steroids.

 

[Morefyah]

What evidence do you have of this?

There not all Olympic athletes but it’s a long list. American athletes are far from innocent.
https://www.usada.org/testing/results/sanctions/

 

[RealET]

Dbol was made in America SPECIFICALLY for the Olympics lmao

 

[mands]

LOL this is a witch hunt and mostly bullshit, The USA has the best "doping" Doctors! Not Russia or China or anyone else. Russians are easy targets and no one likes Putin. The Olympic committees and all associated entities are corrupt organizations who are a crooked as they come. As interesting as it is to watch and to learn the USA and other western counties are far more guilty of doping and are better at it then the Russians

Do you have any information you would like to share?

Name me one Russian Olympic athlete.

Now name me one American Olympic athlete.

Exactly. American athletes bring in money. They’re more known that’s why they can get away with shit.

You guys take steroids you guys know how much of an edge it gives you. Now if 99% of Russian athlete took steroids, how does US, Jamaica, UK, China keep up if they never touched steroids.

That's because we don't live in Russia... Ask the same question on a russian website.

Is that your rationale is they bring in money so therefore USA is the doping king?

Who said 99%, I thought he said more like 50% of russian athletes would piss dirty?

mands

 

[mands]

Dbol was made in America SPECIFICALLY for the Olympics lmao

I thought it was made in Switzerland?

mands

 

[RobertL]

Oh shit. This is on netflix now. Thanks.

Great timing with the whole doping thing going on and Russia being banned.

 

[Eman]

There not all Olympic athletes but it’s a long list. American athletes are far from innocent.
https://www.usada.org/testing/results/sanctions/

I never said they were. I'm just wondering why he felt Western countries were far more guilty of doping. Especially when it's essentially been proven that the testing system is a complete failure.

 

[RealET]

Do you have any information you would like to share?
That's because we don't live in Russia... Ask the same question on a russian website.

Is that your rationale is they bring in money so therefore USA is the doping king?

Who said 99%, I thought he said more like 50% of russian athletes would piss dirty?

mands

Money is everything brother.

Take 1988 Seoul Olympics. USA Carl Lewis was more popular and brought in more money than Canadian Ben Johnson. Carl Lewis one of the most famous Olympic athlete. Both were caught but Carl Lewis was cleared.

Carl Lewis even admits this
Lewis: 'Who cares I failed drug test?'

“he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.“

I’m also pretty sure if you went around the world and asked who Michael Phelps was, more would be able to answer than who Alexander Popov is.

 

[mands]

Money is everything brother.

Take 1988 Seoul Olympics. USA Carl Lewis was more popular and brought in more money than Canadian Ben Johnson. Carl Lewis one of the most famous Olympic athlete. Both were caught but Carl Lewis was cleared.

Carl Lewis even admits this
Lewis: 'Who cares I failed drug test?'

“he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.“

I’m also pretty sure if you went around the world and asked who Michael Phelps was, more would be able to answer than who Alexander Popov is.

Oh I know money is KING my man.

Come on though! Michael has like 25 gold medals or something and Popov has 4.

That's like asking the world who Larisa Latynina compared to Anton Heida...

mands

 

[Millard]

Dbol was made in America SPECIFICALLY for the Olympics lmao

Bullshit.

Dr. John Ziegler Did NOT Invent Dianabol

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The International Olympic Committee has taken aim at the very heart of the Putin regime, probably without meaning to. The Olympic governing body has banned Russia from participating in the 2018 Winter Games, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, after its investigations found rampant doping among Russian athletes as well as an elaborate cover-up scheme that involved tampering with athletes’ urine samples. The I.O.C. has, however, extended to certain athletes from Russia the option of competing under a neutral flag—the Olympic flag itself. This solution may have seemed like a smart compromise between the need to punish a corrupt state sports bureaucracy and the desire to allow clean athletes to pursue their Olympic dreams. From Russia’s point of view, though, it’s war.

Since resuming the duties of President for the third time, five and a half years ago, Vladimir Putin has restored many of the habits and cultural institutions of Soviet society. The lived experience of a Russian citizen is that of the subject of a totalitarian society, one in which everything is political: genuinely private space shrinks into nonexistence. In this disposition, the choice that the I.O.C. has posed to the athletes is one between self and country. Kremlin shills have already started bandying about the word “treason.”

The word suggests that Russia is at war with the world, and that is exactly how it sees itself: a country under attack, surrounded by hostile forces. This pervading sense of life in a fortress under siege is what makes today’s Russia, for all its visible superficial differences, so fundamentally similar to the Soviet Union.

Back in the Soviet era, the Olympic Games served as a symbol of the Communist empire’s struggle with a world full of detractors. Olympic triumphs occasioned nationwide jubilation; champions received the highest state honors, such as the Order of Lenin. Promising young athletes were conscripted into the Olympic Reserve: a system of sports schools with a tellingly militaristic name. It was war, and in war all was fair. I’ve been told by friends who were in the Olympic Reserve—the system was vast, and few actually went on to compete internationally—that they were pumped full of steroids starting at an early age.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

As Putin seethes over Olympic ban, doping whistleblower fears for his life.
As Putin seethes over Olympic ban, doping whistleblower fears for his life

The whistleblower who exposed Russia’s systematic doping of Olympic athletes has been warned by U.S. officials that Russian agents may be inside the United States looking for him, and that new security measures needed to be taken to ensure his safety, the lawyer for the whistleblower tells Yahoo News.

The warning about a possible threat on the life of Grigory Rodchenkov, former director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center — and by his own admission, one of the masterminds of a vast Russian state-run cheating scheme — came earlier this month, within a day after the International Olympic Committee banned Russia from participating in the upcoming Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, according to the lawyer, Jim Walden. The ban, which has been vigorously protested by Moscow, was imposed after Rodchenkov, who fled to the United States two years ago, told authorities how with the assistance of Russia’s intelligence services he had helped the country’s athletes dominate the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 — and evade detection by tampering with urine samples.

Rodchenkov is now in hiding, and participates in the U.S. government’s federal witness protection program. But Walden, a former federal prosecutor who now represents Rodchenkov, told Yahoo News he was recently informed by a U.S official that “you have to assume there are people here looking for him” and that there needed to be a “significant change” in the protocols for his security.

“It’s an incredibly tense situation,” Walden said. “If they get the opportunity, they will take him out.”

Walden declined to provide any more details or identify the U.S. government official that alerted him to the concerns about his client’s safety. But Walden said enhanced security measures have already been taken and he has not even been able to communicate with his client for more than a week. (He said, however, he has been assured of his safety.) A spokesman for the FBI, which tracks Russian intelligence efforts in the United States and assists the U.S. Marshals Service in the witness protection program, declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Stop Russia’s Retaliation Towards a Whistleblower
Stop Russia’s Retaliation Towards a Whistleblower - Sports Integrity Initiative

Vladimir Putin has offered his latest cover-up story concerning testimony from the former Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center, Grigory Rodchenkov, who fled to the United States in November 2015 and then disclosed the single greatest conspiracy to cheat the Olympics through Russia’s state-sponsored doping program. Putin’s new, twisted narrative: FBI agents have “drugged” Rodchenkov to coax a false confession. Putin suggests US are manipulating Dr. Rodchenkov - Sports Integrity Initiative

This would be comical if the stakes were not so high. As Dr. Rodchenkov’s lawyer, I can tell you that when the Russians are not busy accusing the U.S. of drugging Dr. Rodchenkov, they are lobbying U.S. government officials behind closed doors for his extradition back to Russia. If they succeeded, Dr. Rodchenkov would face death and torture at their hands.

The ban on Russia from the Olympics, which the world applauded so vigorously, has a tragic loophole with the potential to undo the effects of Dr. Rodchenkov’s truth-telling and to reward Putin’s continued denials and manipulation. It allows Russian athletes to compete as “neutrals,” and holds out the possibility that the Russian flag might fly at the closing ceremonies if Russia acts in a compliant manner.

Instead of embracing the clemency of this loophole, which they were lucky to receive, Russia has stepped up its retaliation against Dr. Rodchenkov. Ominously, on the very day that Dr. Rodchenkov was scheduled to be interviewed by Immigration officials in the U.S., Russia announced that it brought new politically motivated charges against him, this time for alleged drug trafficking. WADA informant Rodchenkov faces drug trafficking charges in Russia

Russia knows that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is planning to rely on Dr. Rodchenkov’s testimony at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, where dozens of banned Russian athletes have filed appeals from their personal lifetime bans for doping. Obviously, Russia would like to silence Dr. Rodchenkov and make his testimony in these cases impossible. Russia’s actions in retaliating against Dr. Rodchenkov are merely a further symptom of its refusal to accept the unanimous findings about Russia’s state-sponsored doping system. For this reason, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recently warned the Russians — for the third time — to leave Dr. Rodchenkov alone.

Yet, WADA’s powers are limited. The real actor with power in this drama is the IOC, which could fully ban even “neutral” Russian athletes from the Olympics, prevent them from marching in closing ceremonies, or ban them from future games based on Russia’s continued intransigence. Unfortunately, the IOC — who relied so prominently on Dr. Rodchenkov’s testimony in banning Russia from the Olympics — refuses to lift a finger to help him.

The IOC must act.