To be met with 'fans' who are so oblivious to the state of the sport and disgusted by anyone who highlights the bloody obvious, is utterly frustrating. Year upon year, skaters are favoured and "chosen" deals are made and results are fixed.
Also, I have to laugh at anyone who can be so ignorant as to think there's no PEDS in skating,
Russian girls increase in PCS in 2013-14 season was unprecendented.
China replaced East Germany as the biggest doping country in the world especially in swimming. All you have to do is look at Chinese female swimmers in the 1990's and see how they improved. You would have to be naive to believe it was all kosher. And of course the age thing with the female Chinese gymnastic team is always a question mark of just how they actually are.
Gimme a break. The US has been a dominate swimming country since the days of Johnny Weissmuller back in the 1920's. And at least our female swimmers never looked like men like the East German female swimmers did. It's amazing how obvious it was to anyone with a brain that they were doping but no one did anything about it for years.
Individual athletes cheat in the US but the old Soviet Union and East German's were state run from the very top.
I'm not sure why there is such an uproar over this anyway. Nothing was said that hasn't been said here before, many times over by many people.
Really?
Lord knows there was a lot said about fairness of the marks, but I don't think anyone has ever explicitly alleged on this board that the callers, referees, judges, plus whomever had control over which judges were selected, and for which phase, were paid cash to put Sotnikova ahead of Kim.
Wait - rogaine is on the list of banned substances?
You learn something new every day.
It was the appalling behavior of Russian skating 'fans' - they sucked the energy out of every non-Russian performance in ladies & pairs. I have forgotten how bad it was.
Too bad, my dermatologist tells me there is a small window of time for rogaine to be effective. Too much baldness for too long - rogaine may not be effective. As it is it is a crap shoot anyway. I'm just thankful that it is resolving my female alopecia symptoms
Nothing gets to SLC level embarrassment where it was either with us (US) or them attitude. That was piss poor, I don't think any games have reached to SLC or Atlanta level embarrassment. In Atlanta, there was too much cheering for home performance that many athletes on the floor could not hear the music .This. I remembered the crowds were bad but upon rewatching it was even worse than I remember. Embarrassing, really.
Now, because this is invasive I don't think it should be required, but I think a policy like this would be useful for Olympic/World caliber athletes in case they need to take a banned substance for a medically necessary reason or if they take something medically necessary that may trigger a false positive.
Nothing gets to SLC level embarrassment where it was either with us (US) or them attitude. That was piss poor, I don't think any games have reached to SLC or Atlanta level embarrassment. In Atlanta, there was too much cheering for home performance that many athletes on the floor could not hear the music .
Salt Lake City and Atlanta are both in the USA, I certainly don't think Canadians and USAns cheer each other unless they don't have their own athletes to cheer for. I did not claim that in my post either.I know that it's difficult for people who haven't lived in North America to understand this, but Americans and Canadians don't tend to root for each other's athletes all that much, and certainly not just because they are fellow North Americans.
Salt Lake City and Atlanta are both in the USA, I certainly don't think Canadians and USAns cheer each other unless they don't have their own athletes to cheer for. I did not claim that in my post either.
Nothing gets to SLC level embarrassment where it was either with us (US) or them attitude.
Ah, ok. You are a teenager....
But that's just my opinion
(No offense to all mature teenagers here)
Ah I love you you made me laugh again: Evidence thus far
No one is saying there are no PEDs in skating. But I still haven't seen anything showing how PEDs would actually improve a skater's performance. If they did, more skaters would be using them. And if there is widespread PED abuse in skating, surely more evidence would have emerged by now.
The last leaked report of failed drug tests (sorry, I can't find a link to it) in all Olympic sports showed very few, if any, failed tests in figure skating - the skating-related ones were in short-track and long-track speedskating.
While its report largely focuses on doping in Russian athletics, it adds “there is no reason to believe that athletics is the only sport in Russia to have been affected.”
It also said the International Olympic Committee should not accept any entries from the Russian federation until the body has been declared complaint with the code and the suspension has been lifted. Such a decision could keep Russian athletes out of next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro