Doped Games

From the BBC:
"Athletics doping crisis: Russia 'unlikely' to return by Rio Olympics"

Russia is unlikely to return to international competition in time for next year's Rio Olympics, says European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen. Russia's athletics federation was banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations for alleged involvement in widespread doping. An IAAF inspection committee is due to visit Russia in January. "For the moment they have to fulfil the conditions, but I cannot really see them competing in Rio," Hansen said. The committee is likely to report back to the IAAF Council at the earliest at its meeting in Cardiff, Wales, on 27 March, less than five months before the Olympics.  "They must have a cultural change," Hansen told Athletics Weekly magazine. "They must get rid of all those people from before. "We know some good people in Russian athletics and I'm sure they will be elected. We hope that some new people will come in who really understand that this must be changed."  The IAAF voted to suspend Russia's federation (Araf) on 13 November after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".

 

 

^ I highly doubt the IOC will actually ban Russia from the Olympics in Rio. The IOC talks tough, but in the end they are only in this not for the sport, but for all the kick-backs they can get. I'm sure the team going to Russia to investigate Russia's doping will come back with an all-clear at the last minute. The IOC did nothing when Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympics nor did they even allow an official 40th commemoration at the London Olympics. The whole concept of the Olympics is a good one (bringing countries together for sports) but in practice the IOC is a joke. The cities that host the Olympics are the ones that give the most kick-backs, gifts, etc. to the IOC and not the ones that qualified to host the Games. All you have to do is look at how Sochi was before their Winter Games or see how Rio is one big mess getting ready for there's. With all of this said I should state that I do watch the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics and the ParaOlympics and watch how many medals the US and Canada get, but I don't watch any of the sports. ^

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/35195248