RobtheAggie 340 Posted January 5, 2021 #381 Share Posted January 5, 2021 So, I am not to sure how to take this. Russia might actually be getting s little more serious about doping, or it might simply be a sample size of how widespread the problem is. It seems that 12 females from the Junior girls sprint, and 21 from the men's sprit at the Izhevsk Rifle All-Russian competition in December withdrew from the race when doping control officers from RUSADA showed up. Another article noted: "The biathletes from Khanty-Mansiysk and Tyumen had the largest representation in these lists. Attention to this interesting fact was drawn by the winner of the World Ski Championships Nikolai Pankratov, who linked these events with the four-year disqualification of 20-year-old biathlete Victoria Konovalova." The Estonian Championships getting some love as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,760 Posted January 5, 2021 #382 Share Posted January 5, 2021 58 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said: So, I am not to sure how to take this. Russia might actually be getting s little more serious about doping, or it might simply be a sample size of how widespread the problem is. It seems that 12 females from the Junior girls sprint, and 21 from the men's sprit at the Izhevsk Rifle All-Russian competition in December withdrew from the race when doping control officers from RUSADA showed up. Another article noted: "The biathletes from Khanty-Mansiysk and Tyumen had the largest representation in these lists. Attention to this interesting fact was drawn by the winner of the World Ski Championships Nikolai Pankratov, who linked these events with the four-year disqualification of 20-year-old biathlete Victoria Konovalova." The Estonian Championships getting some love as well. Interesting. I noticed that the athletes in these races were all representing Regions rather than clubs, so it’s possible that the root of the problem is at that level. Also, I have seen that in several sports - cycling, swimming, athletics - that some, at least, Russians take a “Dope ‘em young, serve the ban” attitude. There’s evidence that adults continue to get benefits from doping while they were under 20, even if the doping stops by that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,127 Posted January 5, 2021 #383 Share Posted January 5, 2021 5 hours ago, RobtheAggie said: The Estonian Championships getting some love as well. These are the same Lithuanian Championships that I posted about, it's so messy, but Baltics always have them together, but call them differently. They could just call it Baltic Championships then, but no I just don't really get it why it's written that Raenkel was on top in the sprint when he was not even in top 10. Perhaps they didn't want to write that Lithuanians took the first three places and the best performing Estonians were not even popular names with Siimer and Heldna. RobtheAggie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobtheAggie 340 Posted January 5, 2021 #384 Share Posted January 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Werloc said: These are the same Lithuanian Championships that I posted about, it's so messy, but Baltics always have them together, but call them differently. They could just call it Baltic Championships then, but no I just don't really get it why it's written that Raenkel was on top in the sprint when he was not even in top 10. Perhaps they didn't want to write that Lithuanians took the first three places and the best performing Estonians were not even popular names with Siimer and Heldna. I thought as much, and thought the results were a little skewed as well. Maybe they only counted their nations in the National Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobtheAggie 340 Posted January 6, 2021 #385 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Some more is coming out about the mass withdrawal's in the Russian event. The timeline is clearer here. "In Tchaikovsky, after the women were summoned for doping control after the last sprint, all Khanty juniors withdrew. And the next day, in Izhevsk after the men were summoned for doping control, all Tyumen juniors withdrew." dcro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojthas 947 Posted January 6, 2021 #386 Share Posted January 6, 2021 11 hours ago, RobtheAggie said: Some more is coming out about the mass withdrawal's in the Russian event. The timeline is clearer here. "In Tchaikovsky, after the women were summoned for doping control after the last sprint, all Khanty juniors withdrew. And the next day, in Izhevsk after the men were summoned for doping control, all Tyumen juniors withdrew." ...and then there were none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,275 Posted January 6, 2021 #387 Share Posted January 6, 2021 17 minutes ago, Vojthas said: ...and then there were none. okay that is scarry...I am literally just now watching it !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojthas 947 Posted January 6, 2021 #388 Share Posted January 6, 2021 1 hour ago, hckosice said: okay that is scarry...I am literally just now watching it !!! Spoiler It's Wargrave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,275 Posted January 6, 2021 #389 Share Posted January 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, Vojthas said: Hide contents It's Wargrave. huh, I knew it maaan. I've seen it already a few times before (but still the best one was the old USSR one Десять негритят basically the only one I remember which followed actually the real story from the book ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,275 Posted January 6, 2021 #390 Share Posted January 6, 2021 btw this commercial for sort of instant rice pudding with the Fialková sisters is going like every 30 minutes or so on every our major TV channel...that´s Bora cooking 2.0 all over again https://www.instagram.com/p/CJsmREiAN6m/ RobtheAggie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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