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  1. Orangehair43
    Yuliya Yefimova has served a ban and was very lucky to avoid a second.
  2. Orangehair43
    But there is proof Russia should have been banned from these games and none of their athletes should be there even if Rylov himself has never been directly accused nor has had a notably suspicious career.
  3. Orangehair43
    The final swimming relays will be explosive now. Russia v USA might see podium protests and more and more accusations of Russian doping. Here in the UK the British media are already counting any medal denied by Russians as an honorary medal.
  4. Orangehair43
    Most athletes are pretty good at avoiding positive tests now a days (including probably many British and American ones).
  5. Orangehair43
    https://www.newsweek.com/roc-olympic-star-wants-journalist-removed-question-russia-doping-scandal-daniil-medvedev-1613889
  6. Orangehair43
    https://swimswam.com/two-russian-olympic-swimmers-provisionally-suspended-for-doping-violations/
  7. Orangehair43
    And that is what can seen as suspicious, Rylov was already at a pretty decent level before the exposure of the State Sponsored Doping. German TV said virtually every single Russian at the 2012 Olympics was on something.
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  9. Orangehair43
    Biles and Osaka have meant the head of GB Rowing will always be sacked if there is any accusations of mental health damage. Did Katherine Grainger get on with him or not - Thornley did so I presume so but different members of the same crew can have different perspectives of the same events and person. It was reported that some other rowers didn’t rate Paul Thompson’s coaching of Grainger and Thornley in 2916
  10. Orangehair43
    I would be surprised if FINA really want to take on the Americans.
  11. Orangehair43
    It won’t get any better for GB Rowing as the likes of Osaka and Biles have made it toxic for any claims of mental health problems to be ignored by UK Sport.
  12. Orangehair43
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9842525/Jurgen-Grobler-accused-destroying-Team-GB-athletes-former-oarsmen-Josh-Bugajski.html The reasons for the failure of GB rowing.
  13. Orangehair43
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/how-can-a-terrorist-win-gold-korean-criticises-ioc-over-iran-shooting-victory-javad-foroughi
  14. Orangehair43
    Apparently afterwards Murphy Clarfired he wasn’t accusing Rylov or any other participants of individually doping. I doubt any Russian would want to Sue over doping allegations - Russian sport stars usually only really care about what people in Russia think - and very few of them will believe a American and Brit who have just lost saying you doping.
  15. Orangehair43
    Konta’s parents moved to the UK when she was 14 but she was mostly in Barcelona. However despite this she has lost all traces of her Australian Accent and now sounds fully English and is accepted. In the UK accents are very important in terms of being accepted - if you sound British when you talk you are immediately accepted.
  16. Orangehair43
    That’s true. And it doubt he would have said it he was gold - I am not sure he would have done a Lily King as Rylov has never tested positive himself unlike Effimova.
  17. Orangehair43
    Or the fact the IOC and FINA are cowards and refused to ban Russia due to fearing revenge from Putin.
  18. Orangehair43
    I think UK sport are going to count unofficially any medals that would have been won if only the presence of Russians keep the brits of the podium - it is how the press are reporting Helen Glover’s fourth for example.
  19. Orangehair43
    Murphy has accused Rylov of doping during the press conference. Luke Greenbank heavily implied he thinks the same but was a tad more diplomatic. Swimmers are also much more outspoken than some other sports who never really mention.
  20. Orangehair43
    Haughey looks more talented than Schooling in my opinion and feels like she might continue.
  21. Orangehair43
    Outstanding results overnight. The fact Rowing is blaming the Russians being there for not getting medals means they will probably keep funding as that will play very well with the founders.
  22. Orangehair43
    I wonder how many of the Rowing Men’s four will carry on to Paris - being condemned by the press is never a good place for a GB Athlete..
  23. Orangehair43
    That feels unlikely.
  24. Orangehair43
    Reluctant publicly but I am sure they had private ambitions. You can tell on the BBC Katherine Grainger was expecting the Men’s eight to be strong medal contenders rather than challenging for a bronze on a good race.
  25. Orangehair43
    The official GB Rowing response seems to be to be blame Russia. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/29/russian-olympics-success-slammed-great-britain-lose-medals-tokyo/
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