Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Russian athletes banned from Rio 2016 - BBC News" video.

  1. Right. But nothing saves the Russian athletes from impotence and developing features of the opposite sex, thanks to the performance-enhancing drugs they've taken.
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  2. +scott stealth Like doping doesn't have negative health effects.
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  3. ***** That's a thought. Russia could've saved themselves more embarrassment by pulling out from the Olympics. On the other hand, no one would've bought the Zika excuse. Instead, it would've made the Russians look like wimps.
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  4. ***** You're a bit of a drama queen. The Zika outbreak isn't the first pandemic and it won't be the last one either. Now that its seriousness is understood, it can be contained. Zika is closely related to dengue, for which there's a vaccine nowadays.
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  5. I think the keyword here is 'unprecedented scale', at least for the post-Soviet era.
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