Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tokyo 2020: Why Russia competes as ROC - BBC News" video.

  1. If you want to complain the complain about how other nations with similar systematic issues have not been banned. Drug cheating at the Olympics has been going on for decades. If Russia feels bad about getting caught then don't - you got caught wear it. BUT Russia has every right to scream about other nations cheating particularly China and America. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship for swimming. At the 92 Barcelona Olympics a girl from my club in California was cheated out of a gold by the Chinese and it was obvious they were cheating. FINA (the swimming governing body) were only checking swimmers they new had been tested before they went to Barcelona. That included a lot of people from various countries who were at college in America making it look like the testing was random. The British worked it out because one of their swimmers was at the University of Iowa which was a college I raced against. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics the husband of Marion Jones (who was later caught as part of the BALCO scandal) CJ Hunter was caught multiple times and yet still turned up in Sydney expecting to compete. It was later found out that the US Track & Field team had amassed around 150 failed tests prior to arriving in Sydney. Australia had a runner who finished 4th in 2 successive Olympics. Both times the 3 Americans in front of him were caught at competitions after the Olympics. The infamous Seoul Olympics 100m final where Ben Johnson was caught was a disgrace as every other Athlete in that final was either suspected or actually caught at later events. That included Carl Lewis. America has a terrible record of cheating in track and field. If Russia should be angry its should be because they are the only country punished like this.
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