Olympics

[nanocopic]

Anyone else watching? Been pretty into it so far, watched cycling yesterday and also Adam Peatty smashing the world record. Also watched a bit of table tennis and some fencing since I got home today, fencing is a bit dull.

[lymehoop]

the drugs issues has put me off if I'm honest

[72bus]

love the running tho its not started yet

[Stanley]

the drugs issues has put me off if I'm honest

Russian state-sponsored doping has surely now turned the Olympics into a totally discredited farce, in which the winners will be decided by who can cheat the system rather than who are the best athletes. What a tragic state of affairs that the once greatest amateur sporting competition in history has descended to this.

[72bus]

its gone on for years , not just russians . ben johnson and our own linford christie

[Jeems]

Russian state-sponsored doping has surely now turned the Olympics into a totally discredited farce, in which the winners will be decided by who can cheat the system rather than who are the best athletes. What a tragic state of affairs that the once greatest amateur sporting competition in history has descended to this.

A very high percentage of pro level sportsman will be on some sort of PED, it's been going on forever - I won't say every single one but I have my suspicions. It just depends whether the relevant governing body class it as a "prohibitive substance" or not. Maria Sharapova is a perfect example of this. "Heart medication..."

[Stanley]

its gone on for years , not just russians . ben johnson and our own linford christie

Yes but much bigger scale though now, isn't it?

[nanocopic]

its gone on for years , not just russians . ben johnson and our own linford christie

I personally think Farah could have, the whole couldnt hear my doorbell thing wasnt great. Used to see him around Hampton in post officre and stuff before he became really big and he was a really nice guy, less so since the olympics. Also curious if Radcliffe is doing the armstrong thing of trying to hide her possible doping by shouting loud about others.

[jfish]

the drugs issues has put me off if I'm honest

Are you doing too many ?

[Hubble]

Really not the slightest bit interested in the Olympics, but if they allowed the athletes to take any drug they wanted, I'd definitely watch. Ben Johnson's 100m was epic.

[lymehoop]

Are you doing too many ?

they've put me on a stronger pill for my dodgy blood pressure, but I'll still not break any Olympic records

[Jeems]

Yes but much bigger scale though now, isn't it?

Just better testing methods. When they re tested the 2008 samples, I think it was more than 10% were dodgy

[jmelanie]

I assume that not everybody takes drugs but now suspicion falls on anybody who does well.

[Stanley]

Just better testing methods. When they re tested the 2008 samples, I think it was more than 10% were dodgy

Where's the deterrent though? Any athletes caught taking a banned substance should be banned for life. Surely that's the only way to eradicate the scourge on a sport that has essentially had its whole credibility ruined. It's the very antithesis of what 'sport' is supposed to stand for i.e. fair play - particularly the oldest and most famous amateur competition in man's history.

[lymehoop]

I assume that not everybody takes drugs but now suspicion falls on anybody who does well.

some are so obvious. FloJo for example. Had come from nowhere and when the testing became more stringent she hung up her spikes. Sadly she paid a heavy price for her misuse