Where can I find a book that has Russia being disqualified from the RIO games??

[QuantumLeap]

you need to familiarize yourself with the case first and then get back to me
the tests that we're talking about here happened in 2012

don't waste anymore of my time with your "deflections" nonsense, until you go and read about what we're talking about here

Russian Rocket said: "Meldonium was not banned up until January of this year."

All I'm asking about is what happened after January of this year. Not the tests in 2012, not whether it's still legal to buy, not whether you called someone a penguin.

If you're unwilling to answer such a simple question I'll do as you suggest and do some more research on what happened after January of this year and will post in this thread. I look forward to your input on those matters.

[ACoochy]

And rightfully so..

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

Russia Olympics team could be cut to 40 amid IOC backlash

Up to 90 per cent of Russia’s team for the Olympics could still be banned from next month’s Games, despite the International Olympic Committee’s refusal to expel the entire country from the event.

Telegraph Sport has learnt that the IOC is expecting the majority of the rogue nation’s athletes to fail to meet the eligibility criteria laid down after the decision of its executive board not to issue a blanket ban on them competing at Rio 2016.

The IOC was standing by that decision on Monday in the face of a furious backlash from across the world of sport, with president Thomas Bach remaining adamant it had struck the right balance between safeguarding the integrity of the Games and respecting due process in response to an independent report which found Russia guilty of state-sponsored doping on a staggering scale.

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.

A cull in the hundreds would go some way to appeasing critics of the IOC’s refusal to follow the lead of the International Association of Athletics Federations, whose outright ban on Russia’s track-and-field team from Rio was ratified last week by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Bach and his executive board were condemned on Sunday for passing the buck to the IAAF’s fellow international federations by ordering them to assess the testing records of Russians under their jurisdiction before submitting them for consideration by an independent CAS arbiter.

The IOC was banking on the federations adhering to the criteria laid down and not putting forward individuals whose subsequent expulsion would cause them huge embarrassment.

As of Monday, only three of the 23 governing bodies affected had announced they were satisfied the Russians in their competitions met the IOC criteria, those of tennis, triathlon and archery.

World Archery said the country’s three qualified archers, Tuiana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna Stepanova, had all been “tested extensively” and never previously committed a doping offence.

Expressing its “shock and concern” over the Russian doping scandal, it added in a statement: “The IOC executive board should be congratulated on its courageous decision not to put a blanket ban on the Russian federation, which would have been extremely unfair to any clean Russian athlete.”

Others prepared to comment publicly on the IOC’s decision – the federations of swimming, cycling, rowing, gymnastics, boxing, sailing, equestrianism and table tennis – also backed its ruling and said they would determine the eligibility of each of their competitors on a case-by-case basis.

The International Swimming Federation (Fina) announced the expulsion of seven of the 36-strong Russian swimming team and said that it would retest all samples provided by the country’s athletes at last year’s World Championships in Kazan, one of the events, along with the Winter Olympics in Sochi, found to have been sabotaged by state-sponsored doping.

Fina also established a commission to investigate the potential implications of the findings for the entire Russian Swimming Federation.

The International Boxing Association (AIBA), which must rule on the fate of 11 Russians, including two world champions, said it was “reviewing and analysing” their respective anti-doping records. It added: “This information and the decision of AIBA in respect of the athletes’ eligibility will be submitted to the IOC for confirmation in due course.”

The International Federation of Gymnastics said it would “as soon as possible establish the ‘pool of Russian eligible athletes’ … and will have it verified as requested … then forward it to all concerned parties.”

Some federations are expected to struggle to demonstrate that any of their Russian athletes have been sufficiently tested outside a national anti-doping system that an independent World Anti-Doping Agency report last week found had been corrupted into covering up positive findings using methods akin to those in a spy novel.

The governing bodies of team sports such as handball, volleyball, synchronised swimming and water polo may find it impossible to prove enough of their Russian competitors meet the criteria for the country to take part in their events.

A total delegation already reduced by 68 thanks to the IAAF ban was further cut on Monday after the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, confirmed 13 of its proposed entrants had a doping history.

They include Ilnur Zakarin, who won stage 17 of the Tour de France last week, and disgraced breaststroke champion and London 2012 medallist Yuliya Efimova, whose agent confirmed on Monday night she would appeal her exclusion.

Zhukov admitted the total number could rise further, while more expulsions will follow if the country loses an appeal to the CAS over the exclusion of its entire weightlifting team imposed because of its recent doping record.

That would still leave around 300 Russian Rio hopefuls, with the exact number of whom end up banned from the Games likely to determine the credibility of Sunday’s ruling by the IOC.

And Russia was already attempting to boost its contingent on Monday night after sports minister Vitali Mutko wrote to the IAAF asking it to reconsider its own blanket ban.

Another to issue a written plea was the reformed doper who blew the whistle on her own country, Yuliya Stepanova, who urged the IOC to reconsider its “unfair” decision to refuse to allow her to compete in Rio.

[ACoochy]

No offense Rocket but for the integrity of sport in general to remain intact the country needs to be banned from these games...

[The Kraken]

Can we get a list of the top 5 hottest russian olympians that we wont be seeing?

[ACoochy]

Potential hotties on the chopping block include:

Maria Sharapova


Aliya Mustafina


Darya Klishina


Rocket, help us complete this list pal...

[Antibet]

I like hairy penguins better, though

[Russian Rocket]

Potential hotties on the chopping block include:

Maria Sharapova


Aliya Mustafina


Darya Klishina


Rocket, help us complete this list pal...

Cooch you're once again misinformed...but at this point I'm just going to ignore the nonsense that you post in this thread and play along with you.

Darya Klishina is actually one of the two Russians who lived and trained in US for over 3 years and she was cleared to compete under a neutral flag at the Rio Olympics over a month ago.

At least do a simple google search before you post here.

[Russian Rocket]

No offense Rocket but for the integrity of sport in general to remain intact the country needs to be banned from these games...

Not sure why would you ban a country and clean athletes and what purpose would that serve. Just to satisfy your anger and hate for Russia?

[ACoochy]

Not sure why would you ban a country and clean athletes and what purpose would that serve. Just to satisfy your anger and hate for Russia?

Actually it's to maintain the integrity of sport in general and ensure countries like Russia are unable to sink the merit of sport into the gutter like they were allegedly attempting to for a number of years there...

[Russian Rocket]

Actually it's to maintain the integrity of sport in general and ensure countries like Russia are unable to sink the merit of sport into the gutter like they were allegedly attempting to for a number of years there...

allegedly is the key word

you've been brainwashed by the media for years...and that's just a sad fact

[ACoochy]

allegedly is the key word

you've been brainwashed by the media for years...and that's just a sad fact

If that was the case then why has the Russian sports minister admitted that a doping crisis exists?

Not sure if I'm the one who's brainwashed here...

[Russian Rocket]

If that was the case then why has the Russian sports minister admitted that a doping crisis exists?

Not sure if I'm the one who's brainwashed here...

He admitted that there is a problem with some individuals, it is not the reason though to ban entire country and most clean athletes from the Olympics.