Russian Weightlifters banned from Rio

[jaymaximus]

The Russian weightlifting team was officially banned from competing in the olympics due to doping violations.

I didnt think weightlifters used AAS...

Weightlifting federation bans Russian team from Rio Olympics

 

[Wunderpus]

Wow, I am SHOCKED!

 

[jaymaximus]

Truthfully, I didnt think they'd have the balls to do it. Theyve been talking about it for months, but I figured they"d punk out considering Russia is so big and weightlifting is their number one sport.

 

[Eman]

It's really a crock of shit IMO.

Are they taking a closer look at all the other B samples from +4 years ago?

 

[RingMeister01]

Politics in play.


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[Eman]

Politics in play.

Yeah... kind of. It pretty much all stemmed from a whistleblower too.

Doesn't seem fair does it:

 

[RingMeister01]

Yeah... kind of. It pretty much all stemmed from a whistleblower too.

Doesn't seem fair does it:

It's really fucking unfair but this is the ducked ip world we deal with.

Good article btw


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[Millard]

Truthfully, I didnt think they'd have the balls to do it. Theyve been talking about it for months, but I figured they"d punk out considering Russia is so big and weightlifting is their number one sport.

Only the IAAF (track and field) and IPF (powerlifting) have issued blanket bans on Russian athletes, other sports federations have approved at least some Russian athletes for the Olympics. Overall, it looks like the majority of Russian athletes are going to Rio.

http://summergames.ap.org/article/russia-confident-majority-its-athletes-compete-rio