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no, team is supposed to depart on 8th April. tomorrow open training is cancelled. but tomorrow final roster will be announced yes, there are rumors about meldonium, but they started from yellow media. but i won't surprise if they are true...

What's the point of threads if nobody posts in them? If we should go to SwimSwam then what's the point of this site? If we were bombarding the thread with blow by blow results that's one thing, but I don't see us being disruptive. On the other side I have no issue seeing the results of other nations.

I don't think it's a problem, this is a swimming qualification thread and there's no doubt other qualifiers for large nations will be talked about (we already did it for France). Honestly for a sport like this and athletics there isn't much else to talk about since there isn't any true qualification event since it's all about times.

My point about this is that it's a) easier to believe and b) more logical that countries where "glory to the Motherland" (or some communist stuff) through sports is so incredibly important, are doping with state help. For example here in the Netherlands we don't have this extreme "glory to the Motherland" feeling and I don't think there is state-run doping here. Obviously I think there is doping here, but I think it's more private or arranged by the teams itself instead of coming from the sports federations and authorities. But my main point stays the same: it is a sign of huge weakness when people are saying "Stop it, it's a conspiracy from the big bad wolf against us!" instead of "We're gonna do all we can to clean up this shit". 1. XX athletes from country X get caught 2. People in country X respond by saying "omg, conspiracy against us, we're the victims!!" That doesn't make it any more believable.