Meanwhile in Anti Doping News…
Based on “evidence arising from the investigations conducted by Prof. McLaren and the WADA Intelligence & Investigations department”, the IWF announced that it opened investigations against Oleg Chen, Ruslan Albegov, Egor Klimonov, Tima Turieva and David Bedzhanyan.
Here are the public disclosures.
Update 17.08.2019: The latest public disclosure add Dmitry Lapikov, Chingiz Mogushkov, Adam Maligov, Magomed Abuev, Maksim Sheyko, Yuliya Konovalova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina to the list.
They have been charged for violations of Article 2.2 of the IWF Anti-Doping Policy, which states:
2.2 Use or Attempted Use by an Athlete of a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited
Method[Comment to Article 2.2: It has always been the case that Use or Attempted Use of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method may be established by any reliable means. As noted in the Comment to Article 3.2, unlike the proof required to establish an anti-doping rule violation under Article 2.1, Use or Attempted Use may also be established by other reliable means such as admissions by the Athlete, witness statements, documentary evidence, conclusions drawn from longitudinal profiling, including data collected as part of the Athlete Biological Passport, or other analytical information which does not otherwise satisfy all the requirements to establish “Presence” of a Prohibited Substance under Article 2.1.
For example, Use may be established based upon reliable analytical data from the analysis of an A Sample (without confirmation from an analysis of a B Sample) or from the analysis of a B Sample alone where the Anti-Doping Organization provides a satisfactory explanation for the lack of confirmation in the other Sample.]
Looking at the lack of comments, no one cares anymore. It’s come to the realm of ridicule. Russians are having the nightmare that lasts for years. Are they even eligible to compete at the olympics?
Well, it seems to me there are fewer comments here in general after the site went the Patreon route. I don’t know if there are separate comments on Patreon, maybe there is.
As for the doping situation, I do think it is good that they enforce the rules. First of all, I want the sport to stay in the Olympics. Second, doping simply is against the rules. You don’t use the hands to play the ball in football, you don’t punch someone in the face trying to defend in basketball or handball. You follow the rules of the sport or you get penalized for it. It’s fair play, and that’s important to me. This has nothing to do with morals in general. I am not saying that steroids or other substances are bad/immoral as a whole, but in sports you should follow the rules, everyone competes fairly. For me, that is at the very heart of sports. Not everyone will agree, but for that reason alone I think it is good “cheaters” are caught.
The politics of who gets caught and who gets through the loop holes, and the question if anyone hoping to medal internationally in the sport today even can do it clean, is a different discussion and I don’t pretend to think all athletes or all federations face the same conditions here.
Politics.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1084077/russia-weightlifting-president-attack
Others have spoken up before but not enough people are listening.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1044370/european-weightlifting-federation-president-urso-warns-the-sport-must-make-fundamental-changes
Thanks for the links. I agree with much of what Antonio Urso says actually.
Still how bad the situation can be if Russians couldn’t fix it for 4-5 years now? Kashirina is the only lifter who is still on the “russian” level – at least what I expect from them. I am sorry but this is s..t. Looking at Apti lifting his “baby” weights – compare to him of course – is just painful man.
Maybe they are facing tight observation by WADA and the IWF after the events of the past years? I understand your pain though, it is a bit sad to see previous powerhouses perform at a lower level. But there is still time until Tokyo.
hello guys,
i do care about doping, but it seems to me it’s just the same everytime.
what do you want from us, sight of exasperation about the politics involved ? i don’t know why russians keep getting caught. are they dumber about this whole doping thing, what is going on with the wada ? who is doing the controls ? how come no americans are getting caught ? i dont know.
right now i hope the chinese won’t get banned from the olympics i wanna see my favorites compete.
Well, what I would like in a perfect world is athletes that follow the same set of rules.
The ones getting caught since the retests of the 2008 and 2012 samples, and then afterwards, seem to be using the “old reliables” of steroids. Oral Turinabol, Dianabol, Stanozolol, substances that have been around for decades and that now can be detected longer after administration than what was previous the case. Maybe athletes that donät get cauhgt are Clean, maybe they are protected by politics, maybe they are using newer and better steroids and other aids.
I would just like the doping merry-go-around to end and the sport to be about the sport itself.
“Looking at the lack of comments”
I placed a few comments but they disappeared after a few days!
1. Priority One: Health of weightlifters (I hate to read news of middle age champions dying).
2. Sport must stay in Olympics: Minor sport get some extra attention when Olympics or continent championships are at stake.