Russia leads 2014 doping tally - WADA April 27, 2016 3:53 PM Montreal (AFP) - Russia was the top drugs offender in 2014 accounting for 148 of the 1,693 doping violations recorded, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Wednesday. Athletics and bodybuilding were the worst offenders, accounting for more than 400 of the violations between them in WADA's annual report for 2014. Russia, which could miss the Rio Olympics athletics because of a doping scandal, was followed by Italy (123), India (96), Belgium (91), France (91), Turkey (73), Australia (49), China (49), Brazil (46) and South Korea (43) as the top 10 offending countries....>> http://sports.yahoo.com/news/russia-leads-2014-doping-blacklist
"Russia's place at the top of the doping charts comes with the country battling to ensure its track and field athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympics in August. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is to rule in June on Russia's participation in the Games amid calls for their athletes to be banned. Russian athletes were banned from competing internationally last year after an independent commission chaired by ex-WADA chief Dick Pound found evidence of state-sponsored doping in the country. The commission report accused Russia of "sabotaging" the 2012 London Olympics by allowing the participation of several athletes with suspicious blood biological passport results. It also accused staff at Russia's main anti-doping laboratory of "aiding and abetting" drug cheats. The Russian Sports Ministry was also accused of issuing orders to "manipulate particular samples.".....>>
I thought that only Russia was targeted by the anti-doping agency but Italy is a close second. Doping is also common in China and South Korea.
I'm confident that Russia will continue their proud history of cheating and win the doping tallies in 2015 and 2016.
Usa has many gyms but few world class weight lifters. Why? They would never pass the anti drug laws. They doped up on steriods. But Americans scared to question this.
If gold medals were given for cheating, East Germany & Russia would have a closets full of them. I remember years ago seeing Communist East German & Russia women in Olympic events where they appeared to be almost like Neanderthals they had taken so much performance enhancing drugs.
It is true....the habitually cheating Russians were not the only offenders. Unfortunately doping has become a problem for many sports where the athletes are prepared to win at all costs.
I think doping should be allowed. Then noone could complain that someone uses the drugs and someone no. Everyone will be at the same conditions.
There should be a medal awarded for their achievement. - - - Updated - - - Doping is not safe. It's bad for the health of the athletes.
Sure this is the case, but then everyone will have a choice. Yet, I think that it is not allowed not because the organizers of the competitions take so much care about the health of the athletes, but rather because they want that all were in the same position. So if it is not possible to equate everyone by forbidding a doping, then everyone can be equated by permission to use it if they want.
Even if you don't care about the health of the athletes or the fairness of the competition you have the issue of where do you draw the line? World class athletes start very young, often as children. Is it ok by your approach that a 7 year old learning figure skating or a minor hockey player starts taking steriods to give them an advantage? Why do Russians think cheating is ok? Is dishonesty part of your culture?
No, Russians do not think cheating is fine. And of course, dishonesty is not part of a culture. It is a statistical matter- in each country you can find the same percentage of people who cheat. It rather an issue of human nature, than culture. As for the line, people start to take part in the competitions not at 7 years old, but at 16 when then have their own brain. Feeding with steroids starting from 7 years old will not result in an advantage in competition that is done at 16-17 and later.
Well, if they do ever allow doping....which I don't think they ever will...the athletes who play clean and don't enhance their bodies with drugs shouldn't be forced to compete against those who have artificially strengthened their bodies. It would be an unfair situation, and one in which the public would frown upon.
I don't think so. Most countries police their own athletes to make sure they don't dope, in Russia it seems to be a state program. And it's not just doping - Russian judges are frequently caught cheating.
Cheating for Russia is simply another tool in their arsenal to make themselves appear bigger, better, faster or superior to all others.
Doping exists everywhere, including the US. Only some people are caught, and some - not.There is no state program in Russia to use doping. You have completely wrong idea about sports in Russia. And in general, I think that all these doping scandals around Russia are just politically motivated. By the way, doping can not make sportsmen more artistic, which is important in figure skating and in art gymnastics- two typically strong disciplines in Russian sports. About judges, Americans cheat as well. The most famous recent case when American judge did not count the goal in the gates of American team when they played with Russians in Olympic games in Sochi in 2014. He claimed that the gates were moved. In this case the game should have been stopped immediately after the gates were moved but not after the goal. Yet, the gates were moved by American goalkeeper and he was not punished for that. I also do not understand why the hell American judge was employed in this game.
