6th December 2017 (jandmayers and ladylydialondon twitter)
“Russia has been
banned from competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the
International Olympic Committee”
“It is high time that
sports in general are highlighting the use of drugs”
“In the 2014 Games
hosted by Russia in Sochi, high level cheating by drugs was confirmed”
“Thomas Bach and his
board made this announcement in Lausanne. They reached their conclusions after
a seventeen-month’s investigation”
“The Russian Olympic
Committee has been suspended”
“The IOC will only
invite clean Russian athletes to compete in February under the name Olympic
Athletes from Russia”
“There has been
systematic manipulation of the anti-doping rules and the system”
“This proves the
Russian Government was involvement in cheating in the run-up to and during the
Winter Olympics for almost four years”
“This entire
investigation was instigated by a whistleblowing Dr Grigory Rodchenkov”
“He was the director
of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory during the 2014 Sochi Games”
“He stated that he ran
a systematic programme of doping & claimed he had cheated substances to
enhance athletes’ performances”
“He switched urine
samples to avoid detection”
“The World Anti-Doping
Agency (WADA) enlisted the services of Canadian Law Professor & Sports
Lawyer Dr Richard McLaren”
“He looked into these
allegations. The report showed 1,000 athletes across 30 sports benefited from
the doping programme between 2012 & 2015”
“When Russian athletes
were re-tested, there was a host of bans & a stripping of medals”
“A Russian bobsleigh
man Alexander Zubkov was stripped last month of two gold medals he has won at
the 2014 Sochi Games & banned for life”
“A total of 25
Russians have so far been banned for life in taking part in any Olympics”
“The clean-up of
athletes is now being strictly controlled and there are more whistle-blowers
out there”
“No one is safe and it
is high time that hard working athletes get their fair share of the prizes
& no longer the cheats of the world!”
“John Jackson, who led
Great Britain’s men’s bobsleigh team in Sochi in 2014 could be awarded a bronze
medal”
“These decisions must
come in to protect all legitimate athletes around the world at last”
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