Posted on 10/04/2018 2:31:33 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Doping is, unfortunately, a part of sport, and it happens in every country. But there is a big difference between individual cheats like Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones, and a program that is imagined and implemented by the state.
A new and improved drug cocktail. Detailed schedules to ensure optimum results. And in the height of audacity, dirty samples that disappeared through a mouse hole in the official anti-doping laboratory at the Sochi Games and were handed to state security agents, who swapped them for clean urine collected before the Olympics.
This is what the Russians did. At the behest of Vladimir Putin.
Russia has stubbornly refused to acknowledge its crimes against the Olympic movement or turn over data and stored samples from its anti-doping lab in Moscow.
"A few court filings will not deter them,” said Jim Walden, the attorney for Grigory Rodchenkov, the scientist who helped coordinate Russia’s doping system before fleeing the country and spilling its secrets in 2016.
The athletes, the folks who truly care about fair play and clean sport, the countries that haven’t sold their souls for Russia’s almighty rubles — they begged and pleaded with the International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency to not give in. They warned of what a horrible message it would send to let Russia back into the good graces of the Olympic movement a mere two years after its widespread and systemic doping program was discovered.
And still the IOC and WADA gave in.
On Thursday, just two weeks after WADA reinstated Russia’s anti-doping agency, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of seven Russian spies in connection with the hacking of systems used by international anti-doping officials. The Russians then stole medical records and other data of athletes...like Simone Biles...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyamerican.com ...
It would be like Saudi Arabia indicting Anheuser Busch for violating sharia law for selling beer inside the US.
The Russians then stole medical records and other data of athletes, including Serena and Venus Williams and Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles, and published them through a group that called itself “Fancy Bears.”
That's the American connection.
Those are valid points Karl. Some of the athletes’ medical data which the hackers stole and compromised as revenge were from Team USA. The key whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov (but also athlete Yulia Stepanova and others) have claimed asylum in the U.S. and filed lawsuits from here...
It also has to do with the international nature of groups like the International Olympic Committee and World Anti Doping Agency. The governments of multiple countries deal with these things.
Don’t know if it has passed yet, but Congress is working on a law now that gives US prosecutors the ability to charge foreigners, for crimes that happen in foreign countries.
“The law would establish America’s jurisdiction over international sports events, even those outside of the United States, if they include at least three other nations, with at least four American athletes participating or two American companies acting as sponsors. It would also enhance the ability of cheated athletes and corporate sponsors to seek damages, expanding the window of time during which civil lawsuits could be filed.”
I thought it was just a bunch of BS kabuki theater for Mueller to try and save face for all the time and money he has wasted.
Fake News Media has been editing the headlines to make it sound related to Mueller, and not specifying that the hacking is related to the Olympic DOPING scandal. These investigations started before Trump became president and Mueller went off on his derangement rampage.
I wasn’t playing close attention. I thought they were talking about electronic hacking. It was disappointing.
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