re: Russia has officially been banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics

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The whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov, would know: He was the director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory.

The New York Times story is nuts: it describes how every night during the Olympics, he and colleagues would sneak into the lab where the samples were held, find the ones that were sure to test positive, and hand them off to a spook who somehow possessed clean urine samples, presumably collected before the Olympics.

Dr. Rodchenkov said that each night, a sports ministry official would send him a list of athletes whose samples needed to be swapped. To match the individual athletes to their anonymous samples — which are coded with a seven-digit number — Dr. Rodchenkov said that athletes snapped pictures of their sample forms, including the code, and texted them to the ministry, offering forbidden insight into whose urine was whose. After receiving a signal that “the urines were ready,” he changed from his lab coat into a Russian national team sweatshirt and left his fourth-floor office, typically after midnight.

He checked that the coast was clear and made his way to Room 124, officially a storage space that he and his team had converted into a shadow laboratory. There, he said, with the room’s single window blacked out with tape, the switch would be made. A colleague stationed next door in the sample collection room would retrieve the correct bottles and pass them into the storage room through a circular hole cut through the wall near the floor, Dr. Rodchenkov said.

During the day, he said, the hole was concealed by a small imitation-wood cabinet. The sealed B bottles were handed over to the man Dr. Rodchenkov believed was a Russian intelligence officer, who would take them to an adjacent building. Within hours, Dr. Rodchenkov said, the bottles were returned to the storage room, their caps unlocked. Rodchenkov says about 100 urine samples were switched over the course of the Games, at least 15 of Russia’s 33 medal-winners among them. Not a single one was ever caught.

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All you do know is shite post. It's really pathetic. The same kinds of people who get annoyed with faux outrage among college students and left-wing activists do the exact same thing with their own causes. You're upset over something you don't even have a slight idea about.

Educate yourself. LINK

But of course, you won't because God Emperor Trump called it the Failing New York Times in a tweet.

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Trump doin' work

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was he president in 2014 when the same shite happened

that's not what I said

ostensibly OJ was sentenced for robbery/kidnapping/whatever...but anyone with a fricking brain knows the sentencing was heavy handed as payback for a crime he was found not guilty for. this is something that happens in real life, a world wide phenomenon. refs throw flags to make up for the one they missed

so yeah, the political IOC full of bat shite progs in a world rife with anti Russian hysteria (French election, german, etc.) might frick Russia harder than they would otherwise...or have fricked people in the past.

the Olympics are political and always have been. I don't really care. I don't watch the Olympics. I don't know anyone who does. I just think the level to which the hysteria has risen is pathetic. you frick with them financially and now punish them on a matter of national pride to them (because they're all destitute and the sanctions are really hurting them)...at a certain point, the bear is sick of getting poked.

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Why should someone who has spent countless hours training be banned because someone else cheated?

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Why would a college football team get stripped of all wins if a single player was paid? The other athletes on the team worked hard and didn't do anything wrong yet they are penalized as well.

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Russia isn't banned, the Russian Olympic team is

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Then why would the scabs need to wear a "neutral uniform" and their wins won't count for Russia?

Well every athlete from China is still going to medal.

They'll either get Gold, Silver, Bronze, or some lead when they get home.

Jesus man you've lost your damn mind.

Please keep posting.

How is that crazy? One might get the impression from you the IOC has never taken money or been involved politically before and that all all members have equal pull

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The whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov, would know: He was the director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory.

The New York Times story is nuts: it describes how every night during the Olympics, he and colleagues would sneak into the lab where the samples were held, find the ones that were sure to test positive, and hand them off to a spook who somehow possessed clean urine samples, presumably collected before the Olympics.

Dr. Rodchenkov said that each night, a sports ministry official would send him a list of athletes whose samples needed to be swapped. To match the individual athletes to their anonymous samples — which are coded with a seven-digit number — Dr. Rodchenkov said that athletes snapped pictures of their sample forms, including the code, and texted them to the ministry, offering forbidden insight into whose urine was whose. After receiving a signal that “the urines were ready,” he changed from his lab coat into a Russian national team sweatshirt and left his fourth-floor office, typically after midnight.

He checked that the coast was clear and made his way to Room 124, officially a storage space that he and his team had converted into a shadow laboratory. There, he said, with the room’s single window blacked out with tape, the switch would be made. A colleague stationed next door in the sample collection room would retrieve the correct bottles and pass them into the storage room through a circular hole cut through the wall near the floor, Dr. Rodchenkov said.

During the day, he said, the hole was concealed by a small imitation-wood cabinet. The sealed B bottles were handed over to the man Dr. Rodchenkov believed was a Russian intelligence officer, who would take them to an adjacent building. Within hours, Dr. Rodchenkov said, the bottles were returned to the storage room, their caps unlocked. Rodchenkov says about 100 urine samples were switched over the course of the Games, at least 15 of Russia’s 33 medal-winners among them. Not a single one was ever caught.

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At the VERY LEAST we have all of the US intelligence agencies agreeing that Russia attempted to interfere in the elections.

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I don't understand why this is a big deal. They do this shite every time, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't. We are natural geopolitical adversaries. If they hacked into Hillary's shite, so be it. Trump had unsightly recordings leaked to the media himself and still overcame it. Probably because, amazingly enough, he was somehow a better and more likeable candidate than she... which says a lot about America, and the world.