Officially, Russia is banned for previous doping offences. But a team of 335 athletes is competing under the name of the “ROC' and winning plenty of medals
WHEN IS AN international Olympic team not an international Olympic team? When it’s the Russian Olympic Committee. Officially, Russia is banned from competing in Tokyo for previous doping offences. But viewers would be forgiven for thinking otherwise. A team of 335 athletes from Russia is competing under the name of the “ROC”, wearing white, blue and red uniforms, and winning plenty of medals. Russia has repeatedly violated anti-doping laws.
he and his team developed a highly effective cocktail of steroids, known as the Duchess, dissolved in Chivas Regal whisky.from doping athletes for clean ones supplied by stooges. In Sochi the sports ministry and security-service agents used a hidden room within the Olympic village to make the switch.
These details came out during preparations for the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. The International Olympic Committee bungled its response by letting the governing bodies of each sport decide whether to ban Russians, rather than slamming down the hammer itself. Only twoissued complete bans and most allowed all qualifying Russians to participate. Worse was to follow. In 2018 the
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