Category: Olympics

Kohei on the IOC doping decision

“It’s absolutely wrong to ban athletes who have not broken the rules. It (this decision) is good,” said Uchimura, a six-times world all-around champion.

“Those who dope can’t complain even if they get banned for life,” the 27-year-old Japanese told the Kyodo news agency.

Reuters

Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

You can argue that all Russian athletes should be banned. Including gymnasts. Many are taking that position. I respect the argument.

Russian sport is corrupt and deserves sanction up to but not including disallowing athletes and coaches not proven personally guilty. That’s my opinion.

Chusovitina will retire Monday

Oksana:

“I will retire on Monday. I cannot tell you months, days, or years, but it’s going to be a Monday.”

How This 41-Year-Old Got to Rio—and Became the Oldest Competing Gymnast in History

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Sam got a haircut

Yep. 🙂

related – Q&A With Sam Mikulak – Before Rio

Brittany Rogers – Dos Santos

Recall when Brittany was barely doing Floor? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BILw6wLD7rZ/
 
(via papaliukin)

Team Laurie t-shirts

Yep. 🙂

Yulia Stepanova denied Rio

What!? 😦

The IOC has rejected the bid by Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova to compete as neutral athlete in Olympics.

Stepanova was cleared by track and field’s world governing body earlier this month to compete as a neutral athlete in the European championships and the Olympics. But the IOC did not accept the decision for the Olympics. …

The 800-meter runner provided evidence to the World Anti-Doping Agency of widespread cheating in Russia that led the IAAF to bar the country’s track and field athletes from international competition, including the Rio Games.

Stepanova, who served a two-year doping ban before turning whistleblower, is now living and training in the United States at an undisclosed location.

Russian whistleblower denied bid to compete in Rio Olympics

Yulia Stepanova

Without Yulia we wouldn’t know about systematic Russian doping corruption. What whistleblower will ever come forward in future?

related – No one really wants a Whistle Blower: Russia, the IOC, and Doping.

(via Nancy Armour)

The Daily Fail

The Daily Mail is the United Kingdom’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper.

Jonathan Mcevoy put his name on a completely wrong story yesterday. 😦

Daily Fail

I don’t follow that newspaper, much preferring The Guardian. And I’ll link as little as possible to the Daily Fail in future.

Russian gymnasts NOT banned from the Olympics

Russia will not receive a blanket ban from Rio 2016 following the country’s doping scandal, an Olympic source has told the BBC.

Instead, the International Olympic Committee will leave it up to individual sport’s governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to take part.

BBC

Russia Olympics

Russia is corrupt. Systematic doping was approved all the way up to – I assume – the defacto dictator Putin. But I’m still happy Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline will get to compete in Rio.

The Russian girls are en route to Brazil now.

Amanda Turner – IOC Declines to Ban Russia from Rio

via Gymternet Clan

problems with Rio’s Athletes Village

The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee )arrived in Rio on the weekend, hoping to move into its village digs on Sunday.

Instead, staff will continue to work from a nearby hotel. The first Australian athletes, boxers and canoeists, also were scheduled to move into the village on Sunday. Contingency arrangements were being made as dawn broke in Rio. “From what we’ve seen,” said a spokesman, “you wouldn’t put people in there yet.” …

Rio Olympics 2016: athletes’ village ‘unliveable’