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Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)
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37 minutes ago, carivan said:

Well, my sister is devastated. She cares nothing about sports except for Olympic synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics and she doesn't see the point if there are no Russians there lol.

Damn would mean Israel can actualy win rhythmic gymnastics medal!

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Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)
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There is nothing more i would love then to have the entire russian delegation expelled.  Not because im scared of russian athletes.  Americans pretty much spanked them even with doping but i simply hate the country so much.  And i was born in Kiev btw....   why? Thats not something im going to get into.  At the end of the day probably the only sport that is untouched by doping is team sport. So my guess is that they will let them at least compete in the team sport they qualified to. However if they do they need to compete under intenational flag.   We cant take the risk of russia appearing in the medal table! And the russian flag cannot appear in the opening ceremony!!!   It will be the loudest boos in the history of sport   

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10 minutes ago, Adriano said:

Russia is first in the firing line, what about USA? Rio without Russia,  will be a big joke.  They should start, but should be tested. That's all. 

Usa government telling them to dope?? Yea ok.  Its not about individual athletes who choose to do so like marion jones or tim montogmery.  Its the government telling them how to!! Its a big big difference.   Rio is already slowly turning into a joke and the Russians must be banned now!! Even if it means 11 volleyball teams or handball teams.  The thought of anyone performing under a Russian flag makes me completley sick

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Which Sports have International Competitions more Important than Olympic Games?
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1 hour ago, dareza said:

football and tennis.

 

why tennis? I will use Novak as example. Even if he win gold medal at OG, in future more imporant will be his GS titles at all GS tournemants. GS titles are most important for all good tennis players.

I remember asking british tennis fans if they consider murray's win in london in wimbeldon as same as winning actual wimbledon, the answer was no, was much more important to actually win wimbledon year later

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I dont know if we can judge rugby yet because its a new sport.  We see the hesitation in golf.  Plus i think they should've put more or different events to make it closer to reyder cup rather then a straight 4 day competition that we just saw with the us open or any other competition every weekend.   Tennis tournament is also something everyone can see any day of the year therefore doesn't provide too much intrigue

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I was talking to a friend of mine and we got to the subject of competitons that are more important, right now we can only name 3

 

Football - World Cup, Euro obviously mean much more

Tennis and Golf - Majors

Possibly Ice Hockey now with the problems of the NHL inclussion on Pyongchang

and used to be Baseball since MLB players didnt show up and will have to get some sort of agreement if the federation wants baseball to be a bigger part of the olympics (probably wont happen since just like NHL it's in the middle of the MLB season , even towards the end of it)

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