June 17, 201610 yr Reports: IAAF upholds ban of Russian track and field team Russian Track and Field Teams will be banned from competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Russian news agency TASS reported that Russian athletics officials confirmed the ban had been extended. In a historic decision, the IAAF voted to extend a ban of the All Russian Athletics Federation that has kept its athletes out of international competition since a World Anti-Doping Agency independent commission report released in November concluded Russia was running a state-sponsored doping program in athletics. The IAAF’s decision is almost certain to be challenged. Last month, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, said she would file a discrimination case in the court for human rights. It’s unclear whether the International Olympic Committee could amend the IAAF’s decision. The IOC is set to hold a summit on Tuesday to " address the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice." President Thomas Bach said the IOC will have a zero-tolerance policy on doping, but he has declined to elaborate about what that means regarding a potentially broader ban of Russia entirely
June 17, 201610 yr Reminds me of the oldie but goodie about the female East German (that's how old it is) swimmer. Female East German swimmer: Doctor, I must complain about those pills you've been giving me. Doctor: What about them? Swimmer: I'm experiencing side effects? Doctor: What kind of side effects: Swimmer: For one thing, I have hair growing where it shouldn't be growing. Doctor: Where? Swimmer: Around my testicles. And that's another thing...
June 17, 201610 yr I'll predict that the IOC will end up allowing the track and field team members who were not doping. If this does happen, there would have been large bribes that would lead all the was to the office of Putin. But the latter would most likely never be looked into.
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