The Rio Olympics

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McLaren report confirms widespread, 'state-dictated' Russian doping at Sochi 2014

russia track/field already banned from rio, rest of sports could be banned too

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one foreign football player in the russian league had a positive test covered up too

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2008 Olympics samples. 1st wave of retests caught 30 athletes. Today IOC announced another 30 samples contained banned substances

15 more London2012 athletes tested positive in 2nd wave of retests of samples. 23 caught in 1st wave of retests of samples from 2012

23 medalists from Beijing caught in the doping retests.

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So nearly 8% of all samples that have been retested from Beijing and London have returned positive.

[BigAdz]

Gets to a point where you think, feck em. If we can't get it totally clean, then let them all pop whatever they like and let's wait for a sub 7 second 100 m etc.

[tikay]

It's beyond terrible, & we've seen it in Cycling, & various other sports, too.

The oddity, to me, all things considered, it's that it seems to be almost unheard of in English football, & relatively rare in football globally.

I can't help but suspect that may be down to a lax testing regime, or turning a blind eye.

Are our footballers, knowing them as we do, all really squeaky clean as to drug use? 

Much of the cheating is in sports where stamina is required, & that certainly applies to football, where the players regularly run huge distances every game.

[JohnCharver]

It's beyond terrible, & we've seen it in Cycling, & various other sports, too.

The oddity, to me, all things considered, it's that it seems to be almost unheard of in English football, & relatively rare in football globally.

I can't help but suspect that may be down to a lax testing regime, or turning a blind eye.

Are our footballers, knowing them as we do, all really squeaky clean as to drug use? 

Much of the cheating is in sports where stamina is required, & that certainly applies to football, where the players regularly run huge distances every game.

Sure theres a % that lack of testing is not detecting, particularly young players trying to get noticed, in youth teams and lower leagues but guess the testing is alot less at these levels aswell. Im surprised having seen the way footballers act we arent getting a recreational scandal every few days, which probably shows the lack of testing.

Cant see football being anywhere near a sport like athletics for doping levels where your performance can so purely be affected. Drugs can make you faster/stronger but they wont help your football skill so the use is alot less worth the risk. Then you have the fact footballers can earn very good money at a range of levels whereas athletes need to be in the top100/200 across the sport to earn anything above what a league 1 footballer is? Athletics is all or nothing, most meets even bolt wont appear infront of more than league 1 attract to games. The trickle down is going to be terrible.

[Tal]

It's beyond terrible, & we've seen it in Cycling, & various other sports, too.

The oddity, to me, all things considered, it's that it seems to be almost unheard of in English football, & relatively rare in football globally.

I can't help but suspect that may be down to a lax testing regime, or turning a blind eye.

Are our footballers, knowing them as we do, all really squeaky clean as to drug use? 

Much of the cheating is in sports where stamina is required, & that certainly applies to football, where the players regularly run huge distances every game.

It's highly unlikely. If sports with not much money in them have a lot of people who fail tests at the top, is it that likely the sport with lots of money in it is clean?

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Gets to a point where you think, feck em. If we can't get it totally clean, then let them all pop whatever they like and let's wait for a sub 7 second 100 m etc.

I trust they will never allow drugs in sport.

If they do, it will be sentencing thousands of kids to an early grave.

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Just seen the Rio opening ceremony is being directed by Fernando Meirelles who made "City of God" - which is promising.

[arbboy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36870016

6 of the fastest 7 times this year and 2 of the fastest 4 times in history but won't be at the games because of USA's strict policy of having to turn up on one race and top 3 in the trials in a race where anything can go wrong on any given day.  Another case of how stupid yanks are.

Another dirty WR off the books from the 1980s Eastern bloc.  Replaced by another drug cheat?  Anyone think she is clean?  Technically perfect run last night.  Very impressive.

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World Records in women's sprint events are rare. Prior to Harrison's 12.20 last night,average age of sprint (<800m) records was 26 yrs 9 months (eastern bloc/unachievable drugged up records)

[JohnCharver]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36870016

6 of the fastest 7 times this year and 2 of the fastest 4 times in history but won't be at the games because of USA's strict policy of having to turn up on one race and top 3 in the trials in a race where anything can go wrong on any given day.  Another case of how stupid yanks are.

Another dirty WR off the books from the 1980s Eastern bloc.  Replaced by another drug cheat?  Anyone think she is clean?  Technically perfect run last night.  Very impressive.

Ennis run 12.52 on the track at the olympics so no reason why the best 100m hurdler isnt a fair bit better than her? Americans have a pretty ridiculous bad record on drugs, which everyone just seems to ignore compared to eastern bloc troubles? Having said that its clear from cycling USADA are keen to make a name for themselves more recently. Their mens hurdle record holder looks to have gone downhill rather steeply....

It was pretty awesome to watch, prefer to not know the difference was drugs.

[BigAdz]

I think Dandy might be doping his sprinters!

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