Athletics doping scandal

[Tanzeylee]

Maybe the drugs don't work

They just make you worse.

 

[big blue balls]

Is it bad that I don't find this even remotely surprising? I'd be thoroughly shocked if Russia was the only guilty party.

Was in East Germany in the 70s, looked like the street cleaners were on steroids never mind their athletes

 

[leighton]

Russia to get a ban but makes you think how many other countries has paid off the testers too. Look at the whole Mo Farragh and his coach documentary there is no smoke without fire is my view and it may well come out that both have cheated in years to come.

 

[Chancy Termites]

The name Dick Pound is the best thing to come out of this story.

 

[big blue balls]

The name Dick Pound is the best thing to come out of this story.

Saw a female news presenter a couple of months ago have a very hard time keeping her face straight over that

 

[Chancy Termites]

Russia getting named in this scandal as well

This was only an investigation into Russian athletics. You wonder what they'll find when (if) they look at Jamaica or Kenya.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Don't really know why anybody would be surprised. Firstly its been known since the old East v West days doping was rife. After the fall of the wall there was Ben Johnson, suspicions about Flo Jo, Justin Gatlin is a repeat offender - wherever there is loads of money the sharks circle. We think of it applying in banking or government bribes but I think the world is waking up to the fact that the minute huge amounts of money was floating around the Olympics and the World Cup but recent revelations are confirming what we all knew or thought we knew - sports administration if bent and full of bent fuckers taking and giving bribes - they all need to know we are coming to get them.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Jon Snow battered Coe earlier on C4 news, basically saying "Are you incompetent or corrupt ?"

 

[bluethrunthru]

Jon Snow battered Coe earlier on C4 news, basically saying "Are you incompetent or corrupt ?"

Far too many sports administrators use the opticians Wenger uses if you ask me .............

 

[crooky]

It is me or is this story no where near as big as it should be.... because we all think athletics is mainly a bent sport anyway?

Bit like the Tour de France, World's Strongest Man etc