Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

[heywoodu 16,465]

[heywoodu 16,465]

So in these past days we've had:

- Ethiopian marathon runner
- Swedish/Ethiopian middle distance runner
- Two Ukrainian biathletes
- Russian cyclist
- Russian short track speed skater
- Russian long track speed skater
- Russian volleyball player
- Russian tennis player
- Russian figure skater

That's a pretty diverse list of sports...

[Pavlo 149]

Kenya soon to be on that list, Jamaica probably too, and Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.....

[DaniSRB 899]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

So in these past days we've had:

- Ethiopian marathon runner
- Swedish/Ethiopian middle distance runner
- Two Ukrainian biathletes
- Russian cyclist
- Russian short track speed skater
- Russian long track speed skater
- Russian volleyball player
- Russian tennis player
- Russian figure skater

That's a pretty diverse list of sports...

who are Ukrainian biathletes?

[heywoodu 16,465]

Just now, DaniSRB said:

who are Ukrainian biathletes?

Artem Tyschenko and Olga Abramova. 

[DaniSRB 899]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Artem Tyschenko and Olga Abramova. 

thanks

[Ionoutz24 129]

ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova

[uk12points 434]

The Sharapova case is interesting - she says she has been taking this medication for 10 years and only as of 1st Jan 2016 has it been illegal, according to Sharapova she was unaware it had been added to the list. If she was to be banned, this would be a big scalp for Russia - even the most famous of their sport stars are doped - this could dispel the arguments that many innocent Russians will be unfairly impacted if they were banned from Rio, as even the most famous Russian sports people aren't clean. 

I hope that the IAAF are watching this carefully and now decide to officially ban Russia from the Olympics in a few months time - they are not cleaning up their act and doping is spreading into many other sports in Russia. Send a strong message now or it will be the end of clean sport in Russia.

[bestmen 2,924]

 

24 minutes ago, uk12points said:

The Sharapova case is interesting - she says she has been taking this medication for 10 years and only as of 1st Jan 2016 has it been illegal, according to Sharapova she was unaware it had been added to the list. If she was to be banned, this would be a big scalp for Russia - even the most famous of their sport stars are doped - this could dispel the arguments that many innocent Russians will be unfairly impacted if they were banned from Rio, as even the most famous Russian sports people aren't clean.

I hope that the IAAF are watching this carefully and now decide to officially ban Russia from the Olympics in a few months time - they are not cleaning up their act and doping is spreading into many other sports in Russia. Send a strong message now or it will be the end of clean sport in Russia.

if the meldonium didn't help her , why did she take it !!!

she was not sick , there is no reason

[dezbee2008 827]

The Sharapova case is unfortunate because she was one of the last athletes I would expect to be caught up in this mess.