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Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 07:26:18 GMT

Six weeks before the Summer Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, the laboratory that was set to handle drug testing at the Games has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency

It seems he reason for the suspension is the lab’s nonconformity with international standards.

This is the second suspension for this particular laboratory....The first time was 3 years ago. It has only recently regained it's certification for testing

A new crisis indeed.......just shows how corruption in sport is spreading

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/sports/olympics/rio-drug-testing-lab-is-suspended-by-wada.html?_r=0

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

viridis — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 08:44:24 GMT

Fantastic, so I'm assuming all Olympic doping tests (all round and medal winners) will be done in Bogota nearly 3000 miles away.
This Olympics is gonna be epic.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 08:54:07 GMT

I am getting more and more despondent about this sort of sporting event now. Now I tend to look at every winning person or team...and wondering if they have taken performance enhancing drugs...What a sad situation...

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Cairdeas — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 08:56:16 GMT

Great article @Cleoriff I knew about the corruption in Russia , and the tampering with urine samples etc. But it seems much more widespread. Wonder if on site testing would even work given the level of abuse of the whole system x

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Bambino — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:12:57 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
I am getting more and more despondent about this sort of sporting event now. Now I tend to look at every winning person or team...and wondering if they have taken performance enhancing drugs...What a sad situation...

Sadly, it's not just this sort of sporting event. It's a worldwide problem in all sports. Look at what happened recently to Maria Sharapova. There have been PED scandals in the US in professional baseball for years, and you can't even talk about the Tour de France without mentioning drugs. Money changes everything.

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:55:02 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
I am getting more and more despondent about this sort of sporting event now. Now I tend to look at every winning person or team...and wondering if they have taken performance enhancing drugs...What a sad situation...
Sadly, it's not just this sort of sporting event. It's a worldwide problem in all sports. Look at what happened recently to Maria Sharapova. There have been PED scandals in the US in professional baseball for years, and you can't even talk about the Tour de France without mentioning drugs. Money changes everything.

I agree. The Sharapova drug scandal shocked me a lot. ...Let's just say it is getting a whole load more press nowadays. However... even more scandalous is the fact that the drug testing labs are coming under suspicion (obviously regarding fixing results)...?

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

jonsie — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:01:54 GMT

You see, independence day is small when you consider the scale of corruption in sport and politics. We've had tennis, FIFA, EUFA, athletics....

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Beenherebefore — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:07:12 GMT

I think we should withdraw our membership of the IOC

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Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:47:48 GMT

Sharapova doping shocked me. Thought she was one of the good ones

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Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:42:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Sharapova doping shocked me. Thought she was one of the good ones

Slightly flippant but at l;east we are rid of her grunting every time she takes a shot....

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:53:08 GMT

It's somewhat different when a drug that you have been taking legally for years suddenly gets added to the banned substance list......

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Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:10:07 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
It's somewhat different when a drug that you have been taking legally for years suddenly gets added to the banned substance list......

It wasn't sudden Rich. it was recent... had been on the banned list for 6 months. Somewhere along the line one of her team should have informed her of that...or she should take responsibilty herself....No excuses just because she is pretty and good to watch...

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:11:04 GMT

Opinion

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:12:02 GMT

She was practicing her nap time technique

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Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:24:19 GMT

To be honest I have no time for any of it. Even if something went on the banned list two days before....every athlete or manager is informed. Emails are sent out etc etc etc. You take any type of performance enhancing drug ....particularly when drug taking in sport is receiving so much bad press.....then tough...you are caught...take the ban...

Not an opinion actually......a fact....Cheats.. pure and simple.

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:42:31 GMT

Yada, yada, yada and JD is a wife beater.......

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

viridis — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:43:37 GMT

Wondering if it makes em more "enhanced" in the sack..

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MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:46:54 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Wondering if it makes em more "enhanced" in the sack..

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:49:01 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Yada, yada, yada and JD is a wife beater.......

Yeah yeah yeah.....and she is a woman who had a wife...and thought Ey Up...let me get my hands on a few millions......I will give him 15months and then smack myself in the face'....

Re: Olympic Drug Testing lab suspended

MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:50:38 GMT

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