Doping Allegations: yet another global plane for East/West conflict…
In a shock move from the western organised Olympic Committee, the Russian Anti-Doping agency has been severely ‘exposed’ by investigators over performance enhancing drugs in conjunction with collusion to avoid regulation guidelines.
The result of which has knocked out many – if all Russian athletes from the upcoming Rio Olympics in Brazil, not to mention scalding the Russian nation with a scandal that will harm their worldwide respectability into the foreseeable future.
“If these allegations are proven, then clearly bad people have manipulated a system. Will we have better checks and balances to ensure bad people don’t get into those positions in future? Yes,” – Lord Sebastien Coe, Olympic Committee
This marks an escalation in the east/west tensions since the Sochi-Ukraine shenanigan of 2014. With Russian sporting and self-promotion thrown into disarray, this conviction will prove a significant propaganda victory for the war-mongering United States and its affiliates; a prime sporting contender with Russia in the Olympics.
At its heart, this punishment goes to show that sports are no longer simply mutual ways of clashing without bearing arms, but a highly influential way of promoting ones nation to the worldly theater – it just so happens the Olympic Committee has come down hard on Russia in a case that has marred western athletes too – does Lance Armstrong or Dwain Chambers ring any bells?
It seems almost too incidental that Mo Farah & Paula Radcliffe: leading western athletes, were only months ago exposed to allegations of doping, of which has been shrugged off by western media since, further investigations were not made and/or publicized, only now in November do we see Russia taking what almost seems the brunt of a retaliatory punch-back from the west over the doping allegations. Whatever is truly going on behind closed doors is another lucratively elusive matter.