Russia cries foul, rest of world welcomes IAAF's ban

[Grant]

Russia claimed the IAAF’s decision to continue its ban of Russian athletics on Friday was unfair and threatened legal action, while the rest of the world welcomed the move and urged the IOC not to go against it.

“We are extremely disappointed by the IAAF’s decision, creating the unprecedented situation of a whole nation’s track and field athletes being banned from the Olympics,” said the Russian ministry of sport.
“Clean athletes’ dreams are being destroyed because of the reprehensible behavior of other athletes and officials.
“We now appeal to the members of the International Olympic Committee to not only consider the impact that our athletes’ exclusion will have on their dreams and the people of Russia, but also that the Olympics themselves will be diminished by their absence.”

The IAAF voted unanimously to uphold its ban on Russia for systematic doping, saying the country had not made enough progress on reforms to dispel concerns of state-sponsored drug abuse.

The Russian athletics federation blamed the media, saying: “The pressure which we experienced in the last few days ahead of the council meeting, when every day we had some kind of interview or publications, which as a rule had negative connotations, doubtlessly influenced the decision.”

Yelena Isinbayeva, who had hoped to seek a third Olympic pole vault gold in Rio and who is one of Russia’s most prominent athletes, described it as a violation of human rights.

“I will not be quiet, I will take steps. I will go to the human rights court. I will prove to the IAAF and WADA that they made the wrong decision,” she said, referring to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

A Kremlin spokesman, speaking hours before the ban was extended, said: “Everything possible needed to defend the rights of our athletes and the Olympic team is being done and will be done at a legal level.”

http://ewn.co.za/2016/06/18/Russia-cries-foul-rest-of-world-welcomes-IAAFs-ban

 

[The Trutherizer]

They should cool their guns and accept that poor accountability on their government's side caused the country to lose the trust of the rest of the world. Think about how they want to engage with the rest of the world from here on. On a fair basis, or not. Root out the officials responsible.

Gain respect and trust back.

 

[zippy]

They should cool their guns and accept that poor accountability on their government's side caused the country to lose the trust of the rest of the world. Think about how they want to engage with the rest of the world from here on. On a fair basis, or not. Root out the officials responsible.

Gain respect and trust back.

Who is going to root the officials out? Certainly not the authorities. The authorities are the ones that backed the doping in the first place.

It's like asking Zuma to find himself guilty of stealing public funds to build his swimming pool

 

[Solarion]

Yelena Isinbayeva, who had hoped to seek a third Olympic pole vault gold in Rio and who is one of Russia’s most prominent athletes, described it as a violation of human rights.

So is cheating.

 

[Fulcrum29]

So is cheating.

It is a shame though, because it is her own countrymen which had placed her in this position, Russians do not have it easy to pressure their own ill-governance.

 

[Solarion]

It is a shame though, because it is her own countrymen which had placed her in this position, Russians do not have it easy to pressure their own ill-governance.

She did superbly in the 2007 and 2012 Olympics with no drug incidents. It's the innocent ones that suffer every time.

 

[Fulcrum29]

It's the innocent ones that suffer every time.

I would had suggested to her to vault over to Ukraine, but then again…

 

[Solarion]

:crylaugh:

 

[noxibox]

The only reform needed is to get over this misguided obsession with trying to keep drugs out of sport.

 

[Solarion]

^

Not sure if serious.











Nope, still not sure.

 

[access]

wow man just wow.

Germany hosted the Olympics during ww2, even with hitler attending it.

 

[access]

Before the war...

What does it have to do with Russia cheating?

yeah, because he committed his atrocities only during the war.. yeah right. there are events that lead up to a war too. really now.


athletes from all over the world get caught doping, a few from the states, I cant recall their entire countries getting banned, how is that fair to the clean athletes?

 

[Solarion]

Well JZ committed atrocities before the war, and he has hosted Nkandlagate.

 

[FoXtroT]

yeah, because he committed his atrocities only during the war.. yeah right. there are events that lead up to a war too. really now.


athletes from all over the world get caught doping, a few from the states, I cant recall their entire countries getting banned, how is that fair to the clean athletes?

Ahem...do you fail to recall the Beijing Olympics?

How many atrocities has China committed and still commits yet it gets to host an Olympics?

Yet SA was banned from all international sport during Apartheid?


The world is one giant hypocrite...

 

[Cray]

Ahem...do you fail to recall the Beijing Olympics?

How many atrocities has China committed and still commits yet it gets to host an Olympics?

Yet SA was banned from all international sport during Apartheid?

The world is one giant hypocrite...

Not to mention Qatar hosting the world cup....

 

[access]

Ahem...do you fail to recall the Beijing Olympics?

How many atrocities has China committed and still commits yet it gets to host an Olympics?

Yet SA was banned from all international sport during Apartheid?


The world is one giant hypocrite...

exactly my point, I was just thinking off the 100m athletes at that moment.

but yeah giant hypocrite, as you say.

obviously this has to do with politics and all the nonsense going on at the moment and nothing to do athletics.

so annoying, let all the countries participate it makes for a greater show, met some Russian people and would like to cheer for their guys too while watching(if theres no one else I'm rooting for ), have something to talk about or tease them for during this. all part of the sport. but now... wtf

 

[Ninja'd]

wow man just wow.

Germany hosted the Olympics during ww2, even with hitler attending it.

From a pro-Tibet rally in San Francisco:

 

[access]

From a pro-Tibet rally in San Francisco:

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lol

 

[Nanfeishen]

obviously this has to do with politics and all the nonsense going on at the moment and nothing to do athletics.

Exactly - leave your political differences at the door.

The Olympics is about the sports and the athletes.

The whole point of the event is about people putting aside their differences for short period to enjoy the friendly competitiveness of sports.

 

[TriGuN]

wow man just wow.

Germany hosted the Olympics during ww2, even with hitler attending it.

They talked about boycotting it.
I believe in the end, they felt like it would be beneficial to world unity to let it go forward.

Kinda back fired I guess, axis and friends did so well it vindicated their posturing.