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    Summer Olympic Games 2016 Totallympics Predicted Medal Table

    in Summer Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016

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    il y a 7 minutes, LDOG a déclaré:

    The same problem as all other predictions coming out this week: if an american is fighting for gold, he/she will win it. If an american has an outside chance, he/she will end up with at least a bronze.

     

     

    137 medals, that indeed sounds like an hell of a jump for a nation that has been very consistent around the 100 medals mark for the 5 or 6 last Olympics.

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

    Posted · Edited by De_Gambassi

    il y a 25 minutes, T&Fwatch a déclaré:

    Seppelt just mentioned in Sportschau that Putin said on Wednesday in Kreml that all athletes  (even if they have been banned) are seen as Olympic champions. This means they get 4M Rubel (about 50k $) and Seppelt implies that this is the reason why only Morozov went to CAS by now. So he thinks IOC pays cash to avoid the appeals!

     

    Makes sense really. It was reported earlier this week by the Times that the Russians came up with idea, sacrificing allready convicted dopers in the hope to avoid a blanket ban.

     

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/russias-dirty-swap-deal-for-place-in-rio-bxz0mf8z3

     

    Russia was also probably reassuring that no Russians will wome to CAS (hence the  4M rubel). But, I don't see why the IOC would have pay for it, most likely it's russian taxpayer's money.

     

    Edit: did they mentioned during the show the supposed appeal by the russian weightlifting federation ?

    Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

    in Cycling - Road

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    il y a 13 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

    Zakarin was already in the plane but had to be taken off when UCI decided not to allow him to compete in Rio, ouch.

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/zakarin-pulled-from-flight-to-rio-olympics-at-last-minute/

     

    I see, the Russians are playing the victimhood card to absurdity. Everyone and his mother knew that Zakarin was not going to get the green light from UCI.

     

    Russian sport is becoming less and less sympathic to my eyes.

     

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

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    il y a 7 minutes, phelps a déclaré:

    I don't know if I have to laugh at it, or if I have to be very angry because our place (and with it the chances to set up properly an event like the Olympics, 'cause even if we get a place right now, we can't be competitive in any case, since most of our specialists already spent their energy at the recent u-23 & Junior Europeans and Worlds, so now they are basically on holidays) was originally stolen by a bunch of proven cheaters, who had never got that without illegal help...

     

    OK, let's just take it with a smile, but just because I can be sure that even our guys are that clean (but at least they have never been caught cheating, by now)...:facepalm:

     

    Other clean athletes will be cut from the Olympics because of dopers.

     

    Come on, cheer a little bit, they will have the chance to discover the OG, the opening ceremony. Event, if they are not at the top of their game, it's still great for your giuys.

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

    Posted · Edited by De_Gambassi

    il y a 4 minutes, FC Mezhgorye a déclaré:

    you read the report? there are accused of missing samples, but not in the reception of doping. A sample disappeared only in Moscow. Even McLaren never said that one of them used the dope. He said that the sample that could be positive disappeared. If athletes were tested in other countries, no one and nothing could be done.

     

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    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

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    il y a 6 minutes, FC Mezhgorye a déclaré:

    I understand it, but the quotas were conquered in Italy. Accordingly, they tested the local anti-doping agency, which means they were clean. And this despite the fact that until now McLaren's report are only words. And the same shooting federation confirmed that the report has errors. Yes, and McLaren said that he had little time to check all these facts

     

    For fuck's sake, no ! A athlete not getting caught only means he has not get caught, not that he is clean. We have an endless number of exemple of athletes doped to the eyeballs who have passed literraly hundred of tests and didn't get caught.

     

    That mantra really needs to die.

    How Many Medals do You Expect from Your Nation at the Summer Olympic Games 2016?

    in Summer Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016

    Posted · Edited by De_Gambassi

    For a more sensible answer that my earlier post here, between 38 and 48 medals

     

    Athletics: 3-4

    Boxing: 2-3

    Canoeing: 3

    Cycling (BMX, Road, Mountain Bike): 2-3

    Cycling (Track): 3

    Equestrian: 1-2

    Fencing: 3-4

    Judo: 5

    Modern Pentathlon: 1

    Rowing: 1-2

    Sailing: 3-4

    Shooting: 1

    Swimming: 4-5

    Taekwondo: 2

    Team Sports: 2-3

    Tennis: 1-2

     

    Other stuff (Archery, Diving, Triathlon, Wrestling, Weightlifting, Table Tennis, Gymnastics...) : 1-2

     

    Our record in modern times has been set in Beijing with 41 medals. I have good hope that we could beat that.

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

    Posted · Edited by De_Gambassi

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/07/25/russia-olympics-team-could-be-cut-to-40-as-ioc-backlash-grows/

     

    Citation

    As well as denying admission to any Russian to have been sanctioned for doping, the IOC will use an independent expert to weed out those considered to have undergone insufficiently rigorous drug-testing in the build-up to Rio.

     

    It was anticipated on Monday night that this process would decimate the Russia team from what would have been almost 400 at full strength to a delegation that could even end up as small as 40.

     

    An answear to the backlash of yesterday (and the very lazy job of some of the IFs) ?

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

    Posted

    il y a 17 minutes, FC Mezhgorye a déclaré:

    Tennis isn't athletics or weightlifting. Competitions are every week. It's more like a football. It is difficult to hide something. Sharapova's case it shows And the most of Russian tennis players live and train in the United States, Dubai, Spain and come home once or twice a year (Fed Cup or Davis). But the main accusation towards Russia, that the government was hiding and substitute tests in Moscow and Sochi laboratories. And ITF is confident athletes who test laboratories around the world, with all the negative results.

     

    Indeed, tennis isn't athletics or weightlifting, these two sports have a somewhat marginal efficient anti-doping program. Tennis has not. It has a communication policy (that very rarely goes out of tracks like in Sharapova's case). Using it as a "very strict criteria" to judge the cleaness of any athletes is taking us for complete idiots.

    Doping Cases and Bans Thread (2016 & 2017)

    in Totallympics Mixed Zone

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    il y a 44 minutes, dcro a déclaré:

     

    And yet we had cases like Sharapova. Clearing them in five minutes is unprofessional, they are supposed to make individual analysis of each athlete.

     

    They didn't even try to pretend they did... Even waiting a couple of days was too much asking, they probably cleaned the athletes before this guy even had the chance to talk.

     

     

     

    "Very strict criterias"

     

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