dcro 10,172 Posted December 11, 2019 #731 Share Posted December 11, 2019 17 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said: The only thing I expect from the IOC is to make it look like they are neutral athletes. If there's a team named "Olympic Athletes from Russia", then for all intents and purposes it will be Russia, except for the flag (which is not much of a loss) and the anthem. "Olympic Neutral Athletes" is much more of a slap on the face. However, I'm more inclined to believe that there will be the word Russia in the name of the team, so all of this is supposed to be a bad joke about a state-driven doping system, which I absolutely despise. Getting rid of the flag and the anthem is not enough punishment for a program that has lost any semblance of fair play. Actually, I believe this time they explicitly said that there will be no "Russia" in the name. thiago_simoes 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,130 Posted December 11, 2019 #732 Share Posted December 11, 2019 49 minutes ago, dcro said: Actually, I believe this time they explicitly said that there will be no "Russia" in the name. Watch the team be called "Olympic Athletes from Россия" Olympian1010, dcro and thiago_simoes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,095 Posted December 11, 2019 #733 Share Posted December 11, 2019 12 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said: Watch the team be called "Olympic Athletes from Россия" Or Olympic Athletes from the Former Russian SSR, if we are going the (North) Macedonian route. thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojthas 947 Posted December 11, 2019 #734 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, bestmen said: banning Russia from the Olympics won't stop Doping Not banning won't stop it neither. EDIT: @Olympian1010 - did I just use the double negative wrong way? Edited December 11, 2019 by Vojthas thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,417 Posted December 11, 2019 #735 Share Posted December 11, 2019 19 minutes ago, Vojthas said: Not banning won't stop it neither. EDIT: @Olympian1010 - did I just use the double negative wrong way? Yeah that sentence has no meaning in English. Needed to say “Inaction won’t stop it either”, and even then, not a great statement. Maybe “Neither will doing nothing to punish these actions”? “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,498 Posted December 11, 2019 #736 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Clémence Calvin () suspended 4 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted December 13, 2019 #737 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Obviously it'll be ignored by Russian authorities, because blindly crying "it's all just politics!!" is so much easier, but Mariya Lasitskene has some questions to the authorities who screwed her and other athletes big time, again and again. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/12/10/i-am-a-russian-world-champion-and-i-demand-answers-a68545 Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo, Wumo, dcro and 1 other 3 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,546 Posted December 17, 2019 #738 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Iannone was found positive to an anti-doping test during the GP of Malaysi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted December 19, 2019 #739 Share Posted December 19, 2019 https://www.lequipe.fr/Lutte-greco-romaine/Actualites/Zelimkhan-khadjiev-controle-positif/1091986 French wrestler Khadjiev apparently tested positive at the WCh, where he had won bronze and the Olympic quota. Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De_Gambassi 896 Posted December 19, 2019 #740 Share Posted December 19, 2019 à l’instant, Dunadan a dit : https://www.lequipe.fr/Lutte-greco-romaine/Actualites/Zelimkhan-khadjiev-controle-positif/1091986 French wrestler Khadjiev apparently tested positive at the WCh, where he had won bronze and the Olympic quota. The only one to do so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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