Sports Court Bans 12 Russian Athletes For Doping

2/1/19
A dozen Russian athletes have been found guilty of doping and have been suspended for terms ranging from two to eight years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on February 1 that the 12 "participated in and/or benefited from anabolic steroid doping" before the 2012 London Olympics and the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. The court stripped high jumper Ivan Ukhov of his 2012 Olympic gold medal and banned him from competition for four years. All of his results from the middle of 2012 until the end of 2015 have been annulled. The court also banned hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko and high jumper Svetlana Shkolina and stripped them of their golds from the 2013 World Championships.

The cases arose from evidence presented to the World Anti-Doping Agency by Canadian investigator Richard McLaren in two reports in July and December 2016. In the second report, McLaren alleged the existence of a massive state-organized doping program that involved more than 1,000 Russian athletes dating back to at least 2011. "It was a cover-up that evolved over the years from uncontrolled chaos to an institutionalized and disciplined medal-winning strategy and conspiracy, a cover-up that operated on an unprecedented scale," McLaren told a news conference at the time.

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A teenage figure skater has caused an uproar among sports officials in Russia after publicly stating that doping is the only way of ensuring consistent results on the ice. On January 21, in a webchat with her followers on Instagram, 13-year-old Anastasia Shabotova addressed one fan's question about ways to raise performance. "Take a lot of dope, and you'll perform consistently," she said. "And that's it." A little later, asked about the use of banned substances at Khrustalny, a celebrated ice-skating rink in Moscow where Olympic champions train, Shabotova said, "Of course they take it." Within hours, news of her revelations provoked shock in the Russian sports community, and a scramble among officials to deny the claims. The Russian Figure Skating Federation dismissed Shabotova's comments as "nonsense" and "drivel," the newspaper Sport Ekspress reported. Yury Ganus, the head of the Russian anti-doping agency, told the paper that Shabotova -- a youth finalist at the 2018 Russia Cup -- would be disciplined. "The main thing is we must all together instill in society a culture of intolerance toward doping," he said. But Russia instills little confidence abroad when it comes to such matters.

Shabotova's coach, Svetlana Panova, said that she had warned her athletes in May about the need for caution on social media. In comments to Sport Ekspress she said she planned to speak to Shabotova, but hopes that no punitive measures will be taken against her by sports officials. "It'd be a shame to destroy a girl's career because of some statement that was not meant seriously," she said. Russian officials deny any state involvement in the doping of athletes. However, they have at times acknowledged that systemic problems exist.

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Westphalian said:

Since people have trashed the Italy thread with whataboutism, those who live in glass houses:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-olympic-team-cheating-russia_us_5a2aca81e4b073789f695a21


In both Russia and the U.S., the structure of Olympic sports is shaped by the broader political economy. Russia’s doping is state-sponsored because nearly everything in Russia is centralized and state-controlled. In the United States, where the U.S. Olympic Committee, by law, receives no government funding and American athletes receive no state support, Olympic training is outsourced to athletes and private interests like Nike. Any doping is outsourced to those same private interests. Cheating in Russia is a product of the state. Cheating in the U.S. is merely another capitalistic venture: To get money to fund adequate training, one must win, and it’s a whole lot easier to win on dope.

That system also makes it easy for the U.S. and its top sporting officials to simply look the other way, claiming that each cheater is a one-off and that each private entity that facilitates doping ― like BALCO, which provided drugs to now-disgraced Olympic champions Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery ― is cheating on its own volition and in its own interest.

The United States in fact has a lengthy history of doping at the Olympic Games and other international events, and of turning a blind eye to its own cheating. That’s especially true in track and field, the front porch of the U.S. Olympic program because of track’s ability to drive American medal supremacy.

Nike’s track-and-field training program, for example, has been dogged by doping allegations since at least the 1970s, when its top officials were allegedly aware that athletes used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Since the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games, every single U.S. Summer Olympic team has included at least one sprinter who either had previously failed a drug test or would later do so. And that’s to say nothing of athletes in the other disciplines.

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Westphalian said:

Since people have trashed the Italy thread with whataboutism, those who live in glass houses:

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Rogue Valley said:

No US Olympic Team has never been banned from the Olympic Games. This has only happened to Russia....

Russia banned from 2018 Winter Olympics over doping scandal

In addition, Russia was stripped of medals won at Sochi in 2014 and was banned from the Paralympics in 2016. The country with the most stripped Olympic medals is Russia (and Russian associated teams), with 46, four times the number of the next highest, and more than 30% of the total.

in the OP story, The Court of Arbitration for Sport has banned 12 Russian athletes from competition for 2-8 years for doping at the London 2012 Olympic games and the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

Russia by far leads the world in international athletic cheating.

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Westphalian said:

The US doesn't do state sponsored doping because it doesn't do state sponsored funding. It does doping by private sponsors. It's just a different economic model.

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Rogue Valley said:

Odd that international testers have never found widespread doping of US athletes. Not even a good try there Vlad.

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Westphalian said:

Oh, the US method is much better at dispersal.


But the list of proven doped US athletes is very long.


Do you want me to remind you of some of the stars?

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Rogue Valley said:

Let's compare.

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2/7/19
Russian race walker Anisya Kirdyapkina has been suspended for doping and is set to be stripped of two World Championship medals, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Thursday. "All results of Ms Kirdyapkina since 25 February 2011 were disqualified through to 11 October 2013, including forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money obtained during this period," CAS said in a statement. Kirdyapkina, who retired from competition in 2015, loses her second-place finishes at the 2013 and 2011 World Championships. The decision also brought her a three-year suspension which expires in 2020. Kirdyapkina originally won bronze in 2011 but was raised to second place when fellow Russian Olga Kaniskina, who had taken gold, was suspended for doping. Kirdyapkina's husband, race walker Sergey Kirdyapkin, won gold in the 50 kilometers at the 2012 Olympics in London but was later stripped of his medal for doping. Russia's athletics federation has been suspended since a 2015 report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of state-sponsored doping in the sport.

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