If only emails could talk, but, human beings were present when all sorts of decisions were being made. Russians treat emails as if they are law. There are still human beings that make decisions based on facts and not email trails.
January 10, 2018
By Louise Matsakis
...The emails appear to span (click here) from the end of 2016 to the spring of 2017, and focus on correspondence between antidoping investigators who helped uncover a wide-scale, systematic doping scheme carried out by Russian athletes. It's not clear yet whether the emails are entirely authentic; Russian hacking groups have snuck false information into their leaks before. But the World Anti-Doping Agency Wednesday indirectly acknowledged that the emails were real, but not current.
By Louise Matsakis
...The emails appear to span (click here) from the end of 2016 to the spring of 2017, and focus on correspondence between antidoping investigators who helped uncover a wide-scale, systematic doping scheme carried out by Russian athletes. It's not clear yet whether the emails are entirely authentic; Russian hacking groups have snuck false information into their leaks before. But the World Anti-Doping Agency Wednesday indirectly acknowledged that the emails were real, but not current.
"The Fancy Bears are a criminal organization which seeks to undermine the work of WADA and its partners," says WADA spokesperson Maggie Durand. "Everything that they have posted today is dated."
The hack appears to be retaliation for kicking the Russia out of 2018 PyeongChang games, at which only a handful of the country's athletes will be allowed to compete....
If Russia didn't conduct itself so suspiciously, it might have a better case. One of these days, Russia will actually act like a sovereign country rather than a subversive unit of global security.
Russia is untrustworthy. Its politics sours it's potential as a burgeoning economy.
4 August 2016
By Owen Gibson
The author of the devastating report (click here) that laid bare lurid details of state-sponsored Russian doping has accused the International Olympic Committee of completely misrepresenting his findings, which were never designed to prove individual doping cases.
Professor Richard McLaren said the IOC, which did not speak to him or his team about their findings before controversially deciding to let Russian athletes compete in Rio subject to certain conditions, have turned his conclusions upside down. Meanwhile, he said, the debate about the issue and the future of the anti-doping system had become “political and hysterical”....
...“I would like to see the debate turn to the contents of the report and the spin that has been put on it that it is all incorrect and allegations. Look at what is there and what the data is and make a decision on that basis and don’t turn it into what it isn’t – a doping results-management investigation of specific athletes. It never was that.”
With the Russians and the IOC essentially claiming that McLaren’s report only amounted to allegations, he reiterated that his findings were proved beyond reasonable doubt and revealed that he had supporting evidence stored in a secret location.
“I have the evidence, I have it secured. I have the evidence backed up by forensic analysis of databases, sample bottles, I have laboratory evidence of some of those samples. It’s true I haven’t revealed,” he said....
The samples were of individual athletes, but, the McLaren report was about the bigger picture and COMPROMISED athletes by their government.
As to Russia; it is ridiculous that Putin's politics hangs in the balance of every aspect of Russian society. Putin's populous Russia is silly and immature as an international power. It has nuclear weapons, but, other than that what does Russia call great about it's accomplishments. Nobels? Olympic metals? Internationally acclaimed cultural icons?
If Russia didn't conduct itself so suspiciously, it might have a better case. One of these days, Russia will actually act like a sovereign country rather than a subversive unit of global security.
Russia is untrustworthy. Its politics sours it's potential as a burgeoning economy.
4 August 2016By Owen Gibson
The author of the devastating report (click here) that laid bare lurid details of state-sponsored Russian doping has accused the International Olympic Committee of completely misrepresenting his findings, which were never designed to prove individual doping cases.
Professor Richard McLaren said the IOC, which did not speak to him or his team about their findings before controversially deciding to let Russian athletes compete in Rio subject to certain conditions, have turned his conclusions upside down. Meanwhile, he said, the debate about the issue and the future of the anti-doping system had become “political and hysterical”....
...“I would like to see the debate turn to the contents of the report and the spin that has been put on it that it is all incorrect and allegations. Look at what is there and what the data is and make a decision on that basis and don’t turn it into what it isn’t – a doping results-management investigation of specific athletes. It never was that.”
With the Russians and the IOC essentially claiming that McLaren’s report only amounted to allegations, he reiterated that his findings were proved beyond reasonable doubt and revealed that he had supporting evidence stored in a secret location.
“I have the evidence, I have it secured. I have the evidence backed up by forensic analysis of databases, sample bottles, I have laboratory evidence of some of those samples. It’s true I haven’t revealed,” he said....
The samples were of individual athletes, but, the McLaren report was about the bigger picture and COMPROMISED athletes by their government.
As to Russia; it is ridiculous that Putin's politics hangs in the balance of every aspect of Russian society. Putin's populous Russia is silly and immature as an international power. It has nuclear weapons, but, other than that what does Russia call great about it's accomplishments. Nobels? Olympic metals? Internationally acclaimed cultural icons?
