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The Stalinist Witch-Hunt Against Russian Athletes
When the doping scandal involving Russian athletes first broke I wrote a piece for Sputnik in which I said that an across the board ban on Russian athletes would be contrary to the principles of the...
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Simple Explanation Why the WADA Report is a Travesty and Why Russia will be...
McLaren, the Canadian lawyer who drafted the WADA report, has given a very interesting interview to RT. I presume RT is reporting it correctly. He admits he did not speak to or question the Russians...
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The Olympic Movement: Heading for a Split?
As of the time of writing there is no information about the decision the International Olympic Committee will take in response to the WADA report. However all the indications point to an outright ban...
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How Calls for a Blanket Ban on Russia Have Damaged the Whole Olympic Movement
The decision of the International Olympic Committee not to impose a blanket ban on Russia attending the Rio Olympics is a genuine surprise to me. All the indications that I saw over the last few days...
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The IOC’s Decision – What Does it Mean?
The International Olympic Committee has decided Russian athletes can attend the Rio Olympic Games – participation to be individually decided by federations. This is the right decision, but a dangerous...
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Doping Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova Banned from Rio Olympics
Amidst all the debate about the IOC decision to reject calls for a blanket ban on the whole Russian Olympic team, one decision of the IOC must be applauded. This is the IOC’s rejection of the truly...
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Why All Criticisms of the IOC’s Refusal to Ban Russian Athletes are Wrong
The sound and fury of the Western media following the IOC’s decision not to proceed with the proposed blanket ban of Russian athletes is a wonder to behold. As is now standard with anything concerning...
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Why Russia and the world should be grateful to the IOC
There is understandable anger and bewilderment in Russia at the announcement by the IOC that Russian athletes who have been cleared to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio by their own sports...
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Here’s why trying to ban Team Russia from the Olympics was a big mistake
Amidst all the discussion of the Russian Olympic Doping scandal, one point which has not been made is that those who have tried to use the scandal to expel Russia from the Rio Olympics and from the...
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Russian Olympic doping scandal: McLaren Report ‘sexed up’, implicated clean...
More evidence of deep divisions between the IOC and WADA over the Russian doping scandal have emerged in two articles in The Australian. One article, which is behind a paywall, derives from...
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4 key facts the Western media is NOT reporting about the Russian Olympic...
With the Rio Olympics now underway and with the Western media still grumbling about the IOC’s refusal to impose a blanket ban on Team Russia, this is good moment to summarise briefly the key facts...
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Here is the true agenda behind the Russian Olympic doping scandal
There have been many excellent articles written on this subject leading up to the IOC decision not to impose a blanket ban on all Russian athletes participating in the Rio Olympics. I see no purpose...
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Here’s why Russia’s Paralympic ban is a minor matter
Having failed in their effort to get Team Russia excluded from the Olympic Games in Rio, the organisers of the campaign must content themselves with the consolation prize of the just announced decision...
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Dmitry Babich: America’s Olympic hypocrisy (ExtraTime)
The Washington Post wrote that the Russian swimmer Yulia Yefimova who got booed and had chlorine water splashed into her face in Rio might not be so bad after all. There are inconsistencies in WaPo’s...
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This is how some Western athletes are misusing the Olympic doping scandal
In an article I wrote for The Duran about the Russian Olympic Doping scandal on 18th July 2016 I said that there was something “very ugly” about the whole affair. In a more recent article about the...
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Darya Klishina – last remaining Russian track and field athlete in Rio –...
Hot on the heels of the abuse meted out to the swimmer Yulia Yefimova comes confirmation that the Russian long jumper Darya Klishina, the only Russian athlete to receive special dispensation from the...
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Huge blow to McLaren and WADA – Darya Klishina wins appeal to compete in Rio
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) has upheld Darya Klishina’s appeal against the decision of the IAAF to ban her from competing in the Rio Olympic Games. Following the CAS Judgment the IAAF...
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