Opinion: Why there’s no easy solution to state-sponsored doping Olympics
Ariarne Titmus’ drill instructor channelling The Ultimate Warrior, like nobody’s dared to try ever since Hulk Hogan was gorilla-pressed at the crescendo of Wrestlemania VI, bloody well beats the “spectacle” of rugby league right about now.
And see if you can explain to that 11-year-old, that while they’d be sentenced to three months hard detention should they ever dare exclaim F**k Yeah, Kaylee McKeown-style in response to anything, ever, Russia is as present as it ever was at these Olympic Games. Notwithstanding, of course, that the Russian state and its many minions have been determined to have committed the most egregious of crimes against sport and all which is good about sport.
At the same time it recommended Russia be banned from the Olympics, WADA declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency “non-compliant” based on multitudinous failings, skullduggery and blatant dreadful cheating. Then, in the two years to September 2018, WADA enacted a compliance monitoring system in relation to RUSADA, culminating in the latter’s conditional reinstatement.
WADA’s forensic analysis of the database handed over revealed that other fabricated material was uploaded to RUSADA systems, making it appear as though the entire sorry fable had been orchestrated by the former head of RUSADA’s Moscow laboratory, the whistle-blower Dr Rodchenkov. CAS later determined that state operatives had moved to intentionally inculpate the whistle-blower.
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