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ButterflyEffect  ·  2549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C.

HAH. About. Fucking. Time.

    Tuesday’s penalty was in line with what had been advocated by two key whistle-blowers whose accounts upended Russia’s standing in global sports over the last several years and were cited in Mr. Schmid’s report: Grigory Rodchenkov, the chemist who spent 10 years as Russia’s antidoping lab chief and was key to carrying out the cheating schemes in Sochi; and Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of Russia’s antidoping agency who married a runner for Russia’s national team and was the first to speak publicly about the nation’s institutionalized cheating.

If you haven't seen the documentary Icarus it's enthralling, and a bit enraging at times. This kind of doping has been going on for years and years, and Russia should have been banned a long time ago. Think Marion Jones but a much more sophisticated system. This isn't just Russia, but it doesn't feel like going out on a limb to say they are the most institutionalized doping nation right now, though it wouldn't surprise me to find other nations with rampant usage of P.E.Ds...