U.S. Loses Fight Against World Anti Doping Agency
In April last year the U.S. government, with the prominent help from the New York Times, opened a campaign against the World Anti Doping Agency WADA and against Chinese sports competition.
Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold - New York Times
The positive testing, which found a very minor digestion of a performance enhancing drug, was done by the Chinese anti-doping agency. It had immediately blocked the athletes from further competitions. A thorough investigation found that the drugs had ben ingested unwittingly. WADA had accepted those results. The athletes were free to take part on future competitions.
But as the U.S. did not like to compete against world class Chinese athletes it instigated a smear campaign against them.
Smearing The 'Enemy' - A Typical U.S. Info-Op - Moon of Alabama
The Chinese anti-doping agency as well as WADA handled the case by the book. There was a plausible explanation of a food contamination with tiny amounts of a drug during a swimming event in China. No other test before and after that event had been positive. The amount of drugs involved was too tiny to make a difference. WADA did not put out a public notice about the incident as no further action was required. No athletes were publicly named and shamed as none had been proven to be guilty.But that did not fit the U.S. messaging agenda that was designed to defame China. Thus other headlines in the usual western propaganda media were following up: ...
WADA responded to the onslaught:
WADA thoroughly reviewed the cases in early 2024 with all due skepticism, and concluded that there was no evidence to challenge contaminated meat as the source of the positive tests and therefore decided not to appeal to CAS. None of the various other Anti-Doping Organizations appealed either. As WADA has indicated previously, once there is no evidence to contest a no-fault contamination scenario, no Anti-Doping Organization has ever appealed a case to convert a finding of no violation into one of a violation with no fault.
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The politicization of anti-doping continues with this latest attempt by the media in the United States to imply wrongdoing on the part of WADA and the broader anti-doping community. As we have seen over recent months, WADA has been unfairly caught in the middle of geopolitical tensions between superpowers but has no mandate to participate in that.
In August 2024, in a slashback to the U.S., Reuters published an 'Exclusive' story about the illegal handling of doping cases by the U.S. anti-doping agency. USADA let athletes continue to competed even after the had been caught doping.
Athletes undercover? Global and US anti-doping agencies clash over tactics - Reuters / CNN
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says US agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.USADA says the tactic is necessary and allowed, and wants to keep using it. WADA says it is against its code and that athletes caught breaking doping rules should not get to line up in races, potentially winning prize money and medals, without first being publicly prosecuted and sanctioned.
Now the U.S. had egg on its face.
But it did not relent in its efforts to make WADA do as it says.
The Biden administration, in consultation with Congress, decided to withhold its dues from WADA. But that attempt to get its will has also failed:
U.S. Funding Dispute With World Anti-Doping Agency Boils Over (archived) - New York Times
The United States had held back its funding to the agency, known as WADA, after losing faith in its ability to guard against the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs at events like the Olympics, the White House said.
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On Wednesday, the antidoping agency responded by removing the United States, which had been the single largest country funder to the agency, from a position on its board.WADA said in a statement that in line with its rules, “representatives from a country which has not paid its dues are ineligible to sit on the foundation board or the executive committee.”
Loss of the board seat is automatic, the agency added.
The bullying campaign the Biden administration has led against WADA to bend it to its will did not achieve even one of its preferred results:
U.S. policy toward WADA has been led by Dr. Rahul Gupta, the Biden administration’s drug czar, who oversees the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Dr. Gupta’s chief demand was that WADA submit to an outside audit of its operations. He also said that WADA needed to drop a defamation lawsuit it filed against American antidoping authorities, who have accused WADA of covering up the positive tests. And he wanted proof that an ethics complaint filed against him — that appeared designed to have him kicked off WADA’s executive committee — was dropped.But despite a lengthy back and forth between the White House and WADA — including face-to-face meetings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, last month — the agency failed to go along with Dr. Gupta’s demands. It also signaled that if the United States failed to pay there would be consequences and WADA would find alternative funding.
In Riyadh, an Olympic official told a White House official that failure to pay U.S. dues could affect the country’s ability to host or participate in the Olympic Games, according to two people familiar with the exchange who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The U.S. had launched a smear campaign against WADA. It has stopped to pay its share for WADA and lost its executive committee seat.
Rejecting to be bullied WADA and the International Olympic Committee are pulling on the same string.
Should the U.S. not relent in its attempts to break the rules future Olympic events, like the 2034 Winter Games planned for in Salt Lake City, may well move to other places.
U.S. athletes, which USADA allows to take part in competitions despite their doping, may well be excluded from future events.
The U.S. is convinced that its Might Makes Right.
But while bullying may work against weak European 'allies', it fails when it tries to bend international organizations which have the backing of the rest of the world.
Posted by b on January 9, 2025 at 14:42 UTC | Permalink
After all that they removed them from the board? Hilarious. Big deal. They should bar them from competing completely at the very least.
Posted by: Ox | Jan 9 2025 14:47 utc | 1
This dope nonsense is being played far past plausibility.
I used to race bikes. Nothing special, not competitive. Did get to know those who were. Everyone dopes. Everyone but a tiny, really tiny, handful who are so good dope would only mess up a good thing. I know athletes who have been tested hundreds of times at every level up to Olympics and World Championships and Tour de France. And they were dirty every single time. And tested clean.
Dirty tests only happen for political reasons. Everyone dopes. Just the way it is. Making propaganda out of nonsense also just the way it is.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 14:54 utc | 2
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 14:54 utc | 2
Aye, Spanish athletes and their football players were famous for it. They were all at it but only a couple got hung out to dry.
UN, IMF, World Bank, Bank Of International settlements, EU, NATO, the list goes on and on of what the US controls.
Reminded me of this...
CENTRAL BANKER SOLIDARITY ON THE ROAD TO HITLER’S CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GOLD
Same shit, different time.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 9 2025 15:05 utc | 3
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 14:54 utc | 2
Yep. And Lance Armstrong who I knew through mutual acquaintance in Austin in the mid 90s was eventually hung out to dry because 1) he was so successful at doping for so long and as a result 2) too many people in the sport knew the truth and maybe most importantly 3) was such an asshole and bully while the doping in cycling continues.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 9 2025 15:28 utc | 4
Good video about it:
USA lets athletes cheat with steroids, as it accuses Russia & China of violating anti-doping rules
I was too young to understand the petty olympic boycott of the Moscow games (1980) by the US but in L.A. (1984) I remember seeing Carl Lewis' face in close up.
Why? Because it was more than scary.
Didn't know about drugs yet but I knew there was something very wrong with this guy.
Later I realised he was as doped up AF.
Either they didn't test him correctly or they used advanced untraceable drugs.
No way he was clean.
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 9 2025 15:34 utc | 5
The United States attempts to bully everyone who does kowtow to them. The OPCW being a case in point. On the say-so of the bloody Americans, the OPCW, without examining the site in Syria at the behest of America agreed with the "findings" that Asad in Syria had used chlorine gas on his own people. As proof they published a photograph of an LPG cylinder that had been dropped through a roof, without sustaining a scratch and so obviously set up, a 5-year-old child could have seen through it. The USA and their Zionist buddies are filthier than a 10 day dead fish.
Posted by: Steve | Jan 9 2025 15:41 utc | 6
Dirty tests only happen for political reasons. Everyone dopes. Just the way it is. Making propaganda out of nonsense also just the way it is.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 14:54 utc | 2
You missed the point.
The holier-than-thou US used doping charges against Russian athletes, and got Russia banned from Olympia.
Now it's trying to do the same with Chinese athletes, and China.
Someone has started pushing back. It's about time.
Posted by: Martina | Jan 9 2025 15:42 utc | 7
excellent! thanks b...
now if the same process could happen with the osce and other international organizations that are bullied by the usa thru the large media, that would be a good thing..
Posted by: james | Jan 9 2025 15:50 utc | 8
Obvious suspects, just look at UFC's main star Connor McGregor, and basicaly vast majority of other fighters.
Btw as my couch said, martial art wont make you a man, if you are dick, you only be bigger
Posted by: Lubomir | Jan 9 2025 15:50 utc | 9
Here we go again (as it was once said), the legacy media's reporting amounts to turds of BS floating the cesspool margins of a lake of lies. A new rear the same as the last. When will it ever change?
Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jan 9 2025 15:52 utc | 10
In short, the amerikkkans simply CANNOT compete in any fair and reasonable way not only in sports but also a lot of areas in technologies and businesses unless they lie, cheat, and steal. Like apple couldn't compete with Huiwei, it asked usg to ban it. And the anglo media is also complicit to make those cheaters look glorious.
Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 9 2025 15:55 utc | 11
Pretty small stakes. I wonder about the fuss. The should just make steroids mandatory already.
Posted by: onetwothree | Jan 9 2025 15:58 utc | 12
Ed Bernays @ 5
Mostly they don't test at all. They take the money. Might maintain a lab for show.
TQC @ 4
Oh yes, an asshole and a bully. And most did finally get tired of him. But he was not all that successful as a doper. He was a rich kid and paid the whole peloton to take a dive. Forget that PR nonsense about being adopted and single mom boo-hoo. As real as Steve Martin's "I was born a pore black chile". Armstrong Ranch and Baron William Armstrong.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 15:58 utc | 13
"Should the U.S. not relent in its attempts to break the rules future Olympic events, like the 2034 Winter Games planned for in Salt Lake City, may well move to other places."
From the financial debacles of the Olympics lately, Salt Lake City, et al. in U.S., may have dodged a bullet.
Olympics such as they are should be abolished. Play local sports.
Posted by: Linda | Jan 9 2025 16:02 utc | 14
What kind of Empire cannot push its will on a relatively minor international institution?
And we're expected to believe that America is a threat to Russia and China?
No one likes a bully that doesn't know its gender.
It is good for WADA to stand their ground.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 9 2025 16:03 utc | 15
Wait, the 'fix' is in, everyone knows (athletes for sure) so why submit to the humiliation? Open to reasons on why anyone would bother subjugate themselves to such horrors? For prestige? Battered Athlete Syndrome?
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 9 2025 16:03 utc | 16
@Ed Bernays
The US cycling team for the 1984 Olympic Games doped. They did so by blood boosting, a technique where an athlete's previously withdrawn blood is stored and then reintroduced with less plasma to hike the red blood cell count. That much is admitted. I bet EPO was another part of the picture.
Posted by: david lamy | Jan 9 2025 16:04 utc | 17
I've thought for decades that the whole concept of illegal or "performance enhancing" substances has been nonsense and a way to put a thumb on the scale if needed for desired political/social ends. Who are a bunch of prudish officials to tell athletes what substances they can and cannot put into their bodies? Athletics at the elite level is a dangerous enterprise and not good for one's health (heart and body) ... "clean Olympics" is like American football players wearing enhanced helmets when the damage is from the basic mechanics of the game (repeated head jarring).
Posted by: Caliman | Jan 9 2025 16:07 utc | 18
Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 9 2025 15:55 utc | 11
############
America cannot compete scientifically, socially, economically, industrially, or militarily.
This is the sunset phase. We have seen the same thing play out in the UK since WW1. A country can maintain some power and prestige until the current elderly ruling generation dies.
With the pace of information today, it is unlikely the next generations will grow up with these anti-social beliefs.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 9 2025 16:07 utc | 19
I really hope they deny Los Angeles the Olympics in 2028. I have never enjoyed watching people run around chasing balls, swimming against time or doing whatever activity they do. Hosting the Olympics is a vanity project and a total waste of time, IMHO. As someone in LA, we don't need a new velodrome, archery range, track or swimming pool. I doubt whatever the games generate makes up for the cost of the event. And if their purpose is to bring the nations of the world together to drop their differences and compete on the playing field in an attempt to foster peace and understanding, that story has grown a bit threadbare.
And I fully support doping to anyone that can afford the dope, even though it's all crap now. ;0
Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 9 2025 16:12 utc | 20
The only honest sports are boxing and horse racing, as you know from the start betting
and big money are involved.
Posted by: herman_sampson | Jan 9 2025 16:20 utc | 21
Those world agencies would rather strangle themselves than reinstate Russian athletes or clear them of all the bullshit charges though. They'll kowtow to China because they see it as a hopeful sugar daddy moneybag that might not bully them the way US does. They'll still see Russians as subhumans who don't deserve to compete though, especially what with them beating the master races at competitions - surely Russians can only possibly win by illegal means?
Meanwhile world sports will continue to die off because Russians were one of the few cultures who actually gave a damn about sports in a serious fashion and actually tried.
Posted by: Red Outsider | Jan 9 2025 16:34 utc | 22
At: LoveDonbass | Jan 9 2025 16:07 utc | 19
America cannot compete scientifically, socially, economically, industrially, or militarily.
You might add to the list: … militarily, and very rarely intellectually.
A price was exacted from the U.S. when academia abandoned their standards to allow for sheltering students from the military draft of the late 1960's, contemporaneously with the appearance of a strong anti-war movement. Now a second generation of academics are replacing the intervening generation. Neither following generation of 1960's academics attained the stature of their predecessors though their awarded suffixes (Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate) remain. Each following generation of student gets short shrifted in the quality of their very education. What dismal objects now being prepared for the ability to conduct a complex system will assure the functional collapse of that system. This will be the assured future, prepare for it. YMMV
Please overlook typos and misspellings, the eyesight isn't what it once was and editing fails.
Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jan 9 2025 17:07 utc | 23
Typical Amerikan insistence on plea bargaining - you are only as guilty as suits law enforcement. Perverting justice to make their job easier, passing the buck upstream where they are confident of snaring bigger fish. You can't trade off today in the hope of tomorrow's bigger crime. There is so much about this that is just sick and twisted, that exemplifies why Amerika is crumbling. You want to place police plans above the law? You're living in a house of cards.
Posted by: Gerry Bell | Jan 9 2025 18:20 utc | 24
WADA, which submitted to US demands to screw over Russian athletes, is pushing back on the US now?
Wow. Maybe the US Empire is losing ground after all.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 9 2025 18:38 utc | 25
What did Christopher Steele do to get Russia banned?
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jan 9 2025 18:52 utc | 26
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 14:54 utc | 2
Regarding doping and Lance and everything, this is required viewing (Bill Burr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9YL04v-J5U
Posted by: Abe | Jan 9 2025 19:03 utc | 27
You also have the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation... )
Just another WEF group keeping the Russians out of international sport.
Posted by: heavymetal101 | Jan 9 2025 19:06 utc | 28
The whole international competition thing under the aegis of various (and often corrupt) agencies needs to disappear in my view--I think there are other things to focus on--feeding these organizations is pointless other than continuing to encourage "amateurs" to cheat. Better to institute professional leagues for competitions or, if you want international athletes to compete for their countries,let it be on a professional level.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Jan 9 2025 19:24 utc | 29
….. Armstrong Ranch and Baron William Armstrong.
Posted by: oldhippie……..
Tell me more !!!!!
Posted by: Exile | Jan 9 2025 19:38 utc | 30
"If you haven't cheated you haven't tried" - United Snakes of America
Posted by: blueswede | Jan 9 2025 19:42 utc | 31
@Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 9 2025 18:38 utc | 25
The Vice President of WADA is Yang Wang from China, WADA is still very Western oriented but it can no longer just be an obedient doggie of the Western elites. Times are a changing. Putin should add Russia being back in the Olympics as part of the Ukraine peace deal!
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 20:11 utc | 32
The U.S. attempts, most often with success, to corrupt every international organization on earth for its own purposes and use. Prime example: OPCW
Posted by: nwwoods | Jan 9 2025 20:42 utc | 33
Couple interesting articles on drug testing of US and Chinese athletes.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/08/10/usa-athletes-cheat-steroids-russia-china-doping/
https://thechinaacademy.org/china-end-us-reign-over-this-competition-and-there-will-be-more/
Posted by: Thurl | Jan 9 2025 20:45 utc | 34
Roger Boyd
https://rogerboyd.substack.com/p/us-soft-power-takes-an-olympic-hit
Posted by: Thurl | Jan 9 2025 20:49 utc | 35
exile @ 30
Try this
https://mileswmathis.com/lance.pdf
There's another more recent article about the Lance fraud, can't find it because the search engines look away.
I met Lance just once when he was 18 or 19. Tried to win a race with an outrageous foul and was a screaming fuming mess when he discovered he had met honest referees and could not buy what he wanted. Carl could have given him a lifetime suspension that day and I wish he had. He was just a child so was treated too fairly. Also beside himself because the guy he fouled got his bike back on the road and took the sprint anyway.
Look at all the videos where Lance "attacks" at the foot of the mountain and the whole peloton watches him ride away, doing nothing. No ultra-sophisticated tactical blocking by his team. Everyone just sits and watches him ride away. And if you know bikes, you know that his "attacks" were never all that much. He did not ride a bike well. Repeat, he did not ride a bike well, was not a gifted rider. On a level playing field he would have been pack filler.
Back to the topic. If dope tests were real most events in any sport at a high level would see 80% or more of the field disqualified. The tests are not real. It is all just a show. And it would only be 80% because not everybody uses dope every day. If the tests could show what athletes had been doing the past week it would be high 90s
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 21:01 utc | 36
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 21:01 utc | 36
Mathis goes way out on a limb there as he* is wont to do. Some of that information is accurate of course, but a lot of it is misleading. For example, the USPS sponsorship of his team wasn't coming out of taxpayer money. But anyway...
I forgot to mention that during the time we shared a few mutual acquaintances in Austin, I met him in passing twice. I could tell something was wrong with him. He was on some kind of (non-PED) drug, probably to cover the attitudinal effects of the PEDs. It was just a year or two before his cancer diagnosis. I'm convinced that he got testicular cancer as a result of the doping drugs, which is something you don't hear mentioned much. The fawning media (local and national) always studiously avoided that question.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 9 2025 21:57 utc | 37
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 9 2025 21:57 utc | 37
in response to
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 9 2025 21:01 utc | 36
I forgot to close my asterisk on Mathis. When I said he* I was going to refer to Ron Unz's recent piece on Miles Mathis. Basically the amount of content he turns out with the research needed to do so, according to Unz, is far too great for a single person, let alone someone like Mathis who purports to have many other pastimes. Unz is convinced that it's really some kind of team of people churning out those PDFs and not the work of a single man.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 9 2025 21:59 utc | 38
Not an expert or anything like it but as far as I know biochemical tests can be sensitive enough to know what you ate one month ago which seems much more difficult than detecting statistical outliers, unusual stuff, and/or any signature distributions of the breakdown products from those.
(Meanwhile medical tests for ordinary (poor) people seems stuck somewhere around 2000 or so? Is that a fair assessment?)
The ban on Russians is obviously political no matter what and equally obviously clownish considering the need for so many exceptions competing as "stateless individuals", a complete and utter joke, meaningless/unimportant and stupid.
Sports get no big money without big stars and no big stars without a lot of people idolizing them yet sports continue to be extremely good at pissing off the fans that lay their golden egg. Does everyone see the direct similarities to governments, various political systems, and populations?
Meanwhile zionist "Israeli" genocide is treated as perfectly fine. Nazi olympics all over again.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 9 2025 22:24 utc | 39
Make the US compete under a neutral flag .. and no US anthem
Posted by: TEP | Jan 9 2025 22:39 utc | 40
—the ones who see Mossad agents, CIA operatives, and MI6 spies lurking in every corner.
Nah. More like hourly wage part-timers working for some DC area SBA Certified Woman Owned Small Business federal contractor between their stints delivering burgers for UberEats.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2025 0:36 utc | 43
I recall an interesting report on RT several years back when wada was weaponized against Russian athletes and even special Olympics athletes. They noted that Simone Biles, famous gymnast, repeatedly tested positive for Adderall, an extremely potent stimulant which would give any athlete a huge advantage. Wada ignored the clear violation accepting the explanation that it was prescribed for attention deficit disorder. You can bet she's not the only American athlete that gets a pass for doping.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 10 2025 1:44 utc | 44
Posted by: "Peter AU1" | Jan 10 2025 2:40 utc | 51
It takes a real pathetic loser and coward to steal names.
Gee, why would anyone possibly think we're dealing with the same vapid Dunning Kruger afflicted troll. I have NO idea!
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2025 3:02 utc | 45
Not true. This is cosmetic pushback. Russians are banned from sports after ukraine, but nato and zionists are allowed to compete. It's clearly zog controlled.
Posted by: Sal | Jan 10 2025 3:10 utc | 46
US imperialism and arrogance gets old really quick, doesn't it?
They pulled this nonsense on Russia too.
It's good to see that some orgs, even if few, won't cave to US bullying.
Now, if only it's vassals could learn the same lessons
Posted by: Kay | Jan 10 2025 3:36 utc | 47
Oldhippie - read the Mathis link...interesting but the guy goes down a lot of rabbit holes...don't know what to make of him. Liked his (their?) Review of Pynchon... Was fascinated as a youngster but his later stuff seemed creepy
Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Jan 10 2025 4:26 utc | 48
Thanks for the report.
For the reasons given here, plus allowing non-amateur "athletes" into the Olympics, I totally lost interest in it about ~30 years ago.
Just cancel the whole thing, it is too corrupted.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 10 2025 7:33 utc | 49
Ahenobarbus @ 44:
People watching the swimming events at the Paris Olympic Games last year noticed that American swimmers' faces were turning purple and other odd shades after finishing their events. Swimmers from other nations were not similarly affected.
US swimmers' purple faces spark widespread suspicion
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 10 2025 11:08 utc | 50
> against weak European 'allies', it fails when it tries to bend international organizations
But WADA is European, or to be morespecific, is British orgranization.
Just check the nominal heads of WADA - and almost all of them were selected among London Queen/King servants.
Check the Great Britain's share of Olympuic medals - and it keeps growing from the year the "international" WADA was settled by London too.
Posted by: Arioch | Jan 10 2025 12:16 utc | 51
WADA, which submitted to US demands to screw over Russian athletes, is pushing back on the US now?
Wow. Maybe the US Empire is losing ground after all.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 9 2025 18:38 utc | 25
No, the US are not losing ground. Yet. The Russians are still banned.
The US are just trying to repeat that successful strategy by going after China.
Both WADA and Olympia realize that that will kill their business models.
The US will only understand that if their athletes are forced to compete under the neutral flag - supervised by non-American anti-doping agencies.
Posted by: Martina | Jan 10 2025 13:45 utc | 52
37, 38, 48
Yes, MM is a strange one. There is always something there you can check yourself. And argumentation you accept or don't. Ron Unz is a more normal pundit and about a thousand times more suspect.
When I met Lance everyone at the race just assumed he was doped to the hilt. His behavior was outrageous and could be considered criminal. But if you know anything about sport you know that doping is universal and the good actors are the exception. Lance went completely nuts when he found he had met some of the good actors.
He was accompanied that day by his early sponsor Thom Weisel. Weisel would later serve time for securities fraud. Do you know how difficult it is to draw a prison sentence for securities fraud in US?
Lance is currently claimed to have an estate of roughly 500 million. Cycling doesn't pay that kind of money. You know any athletes who are good money managers? He always had the money. Always a fraud in every way.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 10 2025 14:12 utc | 53
Should the U.S. not relent in its attempts to break the rules future Olympic events, like the 2034 Winter Games planned for in Salt Lake City, may well move to other places.
Instead, Salt Lake City looks like the perfect place to host the Miss Wet T-Shirt 2034 Contest.
Posted by: Leuk | Jan 10 2025 15:18 utc | 54
TQC @ 38
I'll throw in one more where I do have expertise. Recently MM presented a photo essay of his bicycle collection he is all proud of. It is pedestrian and uninteresting and just not the work of the great savant he pretends to be. Full of egregious errors any collector would spot. Even if the only goal were to be eclectic and fun there are blatant mechanical errors making the bikes less rideable than they should be. No idea whose collection that is or what he is trying to pull. Just weird.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 10 2025 16:02 utc | 55
“As long as I’m alive the Buffalo Bills will never win the Super Bowl”
“Could be tough sir, Buffalo wants it bad.”
“So did the Soviets in ‘80.”
“Are you saying you rigged the Olympic hockey game?”
“What’s the matter? Don’t you believe in miracles?”
https://youtu.be/NyhAJEPEHk4?si=LezTS5Lb2YS104k_
Posted by: Joe Turner | Jan 11 2025 4:41 utc | 56
Although I don't recall her being involved in any doping scandal, this story reminded me of Flo-Jo who set the sprint world on fire circa 2000 and died suddenly when only 38 years old.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 11 2025 16:04 utc | 57
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