Russia kicked out of the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup!
Russia has been banned from all major sporting events by the Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for four years
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Russia will thus miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, as well as the Qatar FIFA World Cup in 2022.
Athletes from that country will be able to compete in these and other championships, but only if they prove they have nothing to do with the doping scandal and under the neutral flag.
WADA stated that it ruled unanimously in favor of the ban at the Lausanne meeting and that Russia has 21 days to file a complaint with the Court of Sport Arbitration (CAS).
"I wanted to introduce sanctions that cannot be 'dissolved'. We owe it to the 'clean' athletes, sanctions had to be the strongest possible", WADA Vice President Linda Helleland confirmed.
A total of 168 Russian athletes competed under the neutral flag during the 2018 Winter Olympics, after sanctions were first imposed on the country at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Russia has previously been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.
However, the football team is set to be clear to compete in Euro 2020 - with Saint Petersburg a host city - as the competition is organised by UEFA, who are not defined as a "major event organisation" with regards to anti-doping breaches.
Competitors will not even be able to compete under the Russian flag in the 2022 Paralympic Games in Beijing either, but will be able to participate in the 2020 Winter Olympics in Lausanne.
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:22)
Well one must thank you for your unbiased view.
Can you tell me how is it possible for Ryan Lochte, US 200-meter individual medley swimmer, to get only 18 months.
The authorities only acted on Lochte because he boasted on his Facebook page. Lochte is now the current US champion and heading for Tokyo. He is 35 years old - truly a miracle for his age LOL.
Michael Phelps, who after winning all those gold medals first time around left swimming for 2 years then came back and won more Olympic medals. Now that is also truly a miracle in itself considering the 2 years hiatus. Every clean athlete that has not been in the game for that period fails to pass the first trials.
His face is contorted and will get worse as he ages and that is all due to drug overuse.
About a year ago an American tennis critic said there are players well into their 30s who play better tennis than a 25-year-old. The one she concentrated on was Serina Williams and criticized WADA for not doing its job properly. Claims of western athletes getting calls in advance of testing plus WADA lagging behind in latest methods to detect drug users.
Williams cut her foot on a piece of glass in 2010 and nearly died. Again, when giving birth she nearly died. The US cycling association/team members knew that Lance Armstrong was using drugs and he was only exposed because it became unbearable for the sport.
Yes, I can see how the Russians are the only drug cheats.
(sj, 10 December 2019 09:28)
The number of Russian psychopaths is exactly half of the number of American psychopaths.
Because 1% of the population are psychopaths.
I do not know, but maybe Greatçi Druglordaj Mafiosisha can explain, why the number of psychopaths and internet trolls pretending to be Albanian is far beyond the number of psychopath engineers in USA and Russia combined.
(Robertisha Hansenaj, 10 December 2019 05:57)
Robert Hansen (or whatever your Albanian name is), have you gone completely rabid? So much hate and glee that Russia has been banned for four years.
Cheating is not in line with good sportsmanship and should not be tolerated but you have taken the news to a whole new level of excitement.
To ban soccer teams from competing is going a bit too far. Have the soccer players been doping?
There is punishment and there is overkill.
(Peggy, 10 December 2019 02:25)
"Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty ....."
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:23)
I'm all for banning Russia from competition for this but don't be so quick to single them out. Let's not forget the Chinese female swimmer that swam faster than men in the same event:
Russian athletes, state accused of obstructing drug tests | NBC Olympics WADA said testers have been intimidated by officials from Russia's FSB security service and that packages containing samples have been tampered with by Russian customs services.
Athletes have repeatedly provided false information about their whereabouts and evaded drug testers at competitions, WADA said. In one case, an unnamed athlete in track and field attempted to give a fake urine sample using "a container inserted inside her body" but was discovered and tested positive when her real urine was examined.
STATE RUN DOPING PROGRAMS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN OTHER NATIONS LIKE IT DOSE IN RUSSIA ..!
State RUN doping dose not happen in USA / US / EUROPE or any other nation except maybe North Korea or China but even those nation have not been proven to engage into such type of cheating acts yet !!! You can not find this type of underhanded mentality, like you find in Russia nation and Russian scum calling themselves athletes !!!
Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty .....
Yes it is true BUT ONE BIG DIFFERENCE is that a few OTHER NATIONS individuals in history have been caught in using dope like every other nation in the world and they have been punished for their own personal mistakes...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT FOR RUSSIA IS CORRECT !!!
BUT HER IS THE DIFFERENCE !!
1. Those other athletes who did this despicable act did it on their own accord
2.In contrast to the Russians that not just does this type of despicable acts all the time BUT DO also engage in cahoots with the Russian Ministry of Sports. and they engage with the RuZZian Ministry of Sports criminal acts by free will...
The RuZZian state run doping programs, that is run by the Russian Ministry of Sports and financed by the Russian state is something any real and good athletes will not take part in !!!!! BUT the cheating Russian dope addicted scum masquerading as top world athletes do it and even like it !!!!
STATE RUN DOPING PROGRAMS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN OTHER NATIONS LIKE IT DOSE IN RUSSIA ..!
State RUN doping dose not happen in USA / US / EUROPE or any other nation except maybe North Korea or China but even those nation have not been proven to engage into such type of cheating acts yet !!! You can not find this type of underhanded mentality, like you find in Russia nation and Russian scum calling themselves athletes !!!
Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty .....
Russian athletes, state accused of obstructing drug tests | NBC Olympics WADA said testers have been intimidated by officials from Russia's FSB security service and that packages containing samples have been tampered with by Russian customs services.
Athletes have repeatedly provided false information about their whereabouts and evaded drug testers at competitions, WADA said. In one case, an unnamed athlete in track and field attempted to give a fake urine sample using "a container inserted inside her body" but was discovered and tested positive when her real urine was examined.
Yes it is true BUT ONE BIG DIFFERENCE is that a few OTHER NATIONS individuals in history have been caught in using dope like every other nation in the world and they have been punished for their own personal mistakes...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT FOR RUSSIA IS CORRECT !!!
BUT HER IS THE DIFFERENCE !!
1. Those other athletes who did this despicable act did it on their own accord
2.In contrast to the Russians that not just does this type of despicable acts all the time BUT DO also engage in cahoots with the Russian Ministry of Sports. and they engage with the RuZZian Ministry of Sports criminal acts by free will...
The RuZZian state run doping programs, that is run by the Russian Ministry of Sports and financed by the Russian state is something any real and good athletes will not take part in !!!!! BUT the cheating Russian dope addicted scum masquerading as top world athletes do it and even like it !!!!
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:22)
Well one must thank you for your unbiased view.
Can you tell me how is it possible for Ryan Lochte, US 200-meter individual medley swimmer, to get only 18 months.
The authorities only acted on Lochte because he boasted on his Facebook page. Lochte is now the current US champion and heading for Tokyo. He is 35 years old - truly a miracle for his age LOL.
Michael Phelps, who after winning all those gold medals first time around left swimming for 2 years then came back and won more Olympic medals. Now that is also truly a miracle in itself considering the 2 years hiatus. Every clean athlete that has not been in the game for that period fails to pass the first trials.
His face is contorted and will get worse as he ages and that is all due to drug overuse.
About a year ago an American tennis critic said there are players well into their 30s who play better tennis than a 25-year-old. The one she concentrated on was Serina Williams and criticized WADA for not doing its job properly. Claims of western athletes getting calls in advance of testing plus WADA lagging behind in latest methods to detect drug users.
Williams cut her foot on a piece of glass in 2010 and nearly died. Again, when giving birth she nearly died. The US cycling association/team members knew that Lance Armstrong was using drugs and he was only exposed because it became unbearable for the sport.
Yes, I can see how the Russians are the only drug cheats.
(sj, 10 December 2019 09:28)
Robert Hansen (or whatever your Albanian name is), have you gone completely rabid? So much hate and glee that Russia has been banned for four years.
Cheating is not in line with good sportsmanship and should not be tolerated but you have taken the news to a whole new level of excitement.
To ban soccer teams from competing is going a bit too far. Have the soccer players been doping?
There is punishment and there is overkill.
(Peggy, 10 December 2019 02:25)
"Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty ....."
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:23)
I'm all for banning Russia from competition for this but don't be so quick to single them out. Let's not forget the Chinese female swimmer that swam faster than men in the same event:
The number of Russian psychopaths is exactly half of the number of American psychopaths.
Because 1% of the population are psychopaths.
I do not know, but maybe Greatçi Druglordaj Mafiosisha can explain, why the number of psychopaths and internet trolls pretending to be Albanian is far beyond the number of psychopath engineers in USA and Russia combined.
(Robertisha Hansenaj, 10 December 2019 05:57)
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:22)
Well one must thank you for your unbiased view.
Can you tell me how is it possible for Ryan Lochte, US 200-meter individual medley swimmer, to get only 18 months.
The authorities only acted on Lochte because he boasted on his Facebook page. Lochte is now the current US champion and heading for Tokyo. He is 35 years old - truly a miracle for his age LOL.
Michael Phelps, who after winning all those gold medals first time around left swimming for 2 years then came back and won more Olympic medals. Now that is also truly a miracle in itself considering the 2 years hiatus. Every clean athlete that has not been in the game for that period fails to pass the first trials.
His face is contorted and will get worse as he ages and that is all due to drug overuse.
About a year ago an American tennis critic said there are players well into their 30s who play better tennis than a 25-year-old. The one she concentrated on was Serina Williams and criticized WADA for not doing its job properly. Claims of western athletes getting calls in advance of testing plus WADA lagging behind in latest methods to detect drug users.
Williams cut her foot on a piece of glass in 2010 and nearly died. Again, when giving birth she nearly died. The US cycling association/team members knew that Lance Armstrong was using drugs and he was only exposed because it became unbearable for the sport.
Yes, I can see how the Russians are the only drug cheats.
(sj, 10 December 2019 09:28)
Robert Hansen (or whatever your Albanian name is), have you gone completely rabid? So much hate and glee that Russia has been banned for four years.
Cheating is not in line with good sportsmanship and should not be tolerated but you have taken the news to a whole new level of excitement.
To ban soccer teams from competing is going a bit too far. Have the soccer players been doping?
There is punishment and there is overkill.
(Peggy, 10 December 2019 02:25)
STATE RUN DOPING PROGRAMS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN OTHER NATIONS LIKE IT DOSE IN RUSSIA ..!
State RUN doping dose not happen in USA / US / EUROPE or any other nation except maybe North Korea or China but even those nation have not been proven to engage into such type of cheating acts yet !!! You can not find this type of underhanded mentality, like you find in Russia nation and Russian scum calling themselves athletes !!!
Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty .....
Yes it is true BUT ONE BIG DIFFERENCE is that a few OTHER NATIONS individuals in history have been caught in using dope like every other nation in the world and they have been punished for their own personal mistakes...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT FOR RUSSIA IS CORRECT !!!
BUT HER IS THE DIFFERENCE !!
1. Those other athletes who did this despicable act did it on their own accord
2.In contrast to the Russians that not just does this type of despicable acts all the time BUT DO also engage in cahoots with the Russian Ministry of Sports. and they engage with the RuZZian Ministry of Sports criminal acts by free will...
The RuZZian state run doping programs, that is run by the Russian Ministry of Sports and financed by the Russian state is something any real and good athletes will not take part in !!!!! BUT the cheating Russian dope addicted scum masquerading as top world athletes do it and even like it !!!!
Russian athletes, state accused of obstructing drug tests | NBC Olympics WADA said testers have been intimidated by officials from Russia's FSB security service and that packages containing samples have been tampered with by Russian customs services.
Athletes have repeatedly provided false information about their whereabouts and evaded drug testers at competitions, WADA said. In one case, an unnamed athlete in track and field attempted to give a fake urine sample using "a container inserted inside her body" but was discovered and tested positive when her real urine was examined.
The number of Russian psychopaths is exactly half of the number of American psychopaths.
Because 1% of the population are psychopaths.
I do not know, but maybe Greatçi Druglordaj Mafiosisha can explain, why the number of psychopaths and internet trolls pretending to be Albanian is far beyond the number of psychopath engineers in USA and Russia combined.
(Robertisha Hansenaj, 10 December 2019 05:57)
"Even North Korea and China seem to respect and honor good sportsmanship in the Olympics they seem to be standing by values and ideas like honor, respect, honesty ... This is ideas and concepts that do NOT exist in the Russian DNA or mentalaty ....."
(Robert Hansen, 9 December 2019 14:23)
I'm all for banning Russia from competition for this but don't be so quick to single them out. Let's not forget the Chinese female swimmer that swam faster than men in the same event: