Russia Officially Banned From 2018 Olympics

[john l]

You sound like Maxi. Fact is, other countries are able to comply with certain standards, without purposefully manipulating the system. Throwing your hands up in the air and giving up doesn't fix anything. It's just apathy.

Bingo big diff between what the Russians and the rest of world do when it comes to doping.

[Szef]

They can ban Russian athletes for as long as they can for all I care. But hands off their vodka.

[Mr Objecitivity]

You sound like Maxi. Fact is, other countries are able to comply with certain standards, without purposefully manipulating the system. Throwing your hands up in the air and giving up doesn't fix anything. It's just apathy.

I don't know who Maxi is!

Anyway, my point was that the whole premise behind drug cheats existing in the modern 21st century Earth, which is mainly an artificial Earth is in and of itself a fallacy. Seeking for 100% Clean / natural athletes today (in a world that is mainly unnatural and unclean) is like asking a trans-human person to not use a calculator when they already have a calculator embedded in their brain (through modern technology). The gladiatorial days of ancient Romes are over when warriors used to be totally clean and natural. Humans athletes are gonna continue to become more and more enhanced artificially as time goes by.

The difference between legal and illegal drugs at this point is totally arbitrary. Chemical athletic enhancement is chemical athletic enhancement. It doesn't take a rocket science to work out why modern heavyweights who are 240+ pound and over 6 foot 3 inches are significantly more athletic than heavyweight boxers of the same dimension from 40 / 50 / 60 years ago. This is thanks to modern technology! Without it, athletes won't be any different today than before.

So to ban athletes for using the very thing that made it possible for athletes to improve from the past in the first place is a fallacy, in and of itself.

That's just my take on this!

[KingHippo]

This is the 21st century. Anybody who genuinely believes any country has athletes that are 100% clean or 100% of their athletes being clean. Especially the 1st world countries. Those individuals are suffering from delusion.

The current world is an artificial world with artificial chemicals found practically in every consumable product. From animal products to fruits. You name it!

Oh please, stop being a focking apologist. Some countries are just worst than others, never been a secret that the Soviets are notorious drug cheats. Just man up and accept the truth.

[Superbee]

InB4 Vlad_ ...

[Robbie Barrett]

Russia and America have always pumped their athletes full of drugs.

[KingHippo]

Russia and America have always pumped their athletes full of drugs.

Have proof of an American government sponsored doping program?

[Robbie Barrett]

Have proof of an American government sponsored doping program?

I have proof that around the same amount of Americans/Russians have been caught cheating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_in_athletics

[-MAKAVELLI-]

do China next

[-Kev-]

All that cheating caught up to them.