2016 Olympic Games in Rio: Only Russians cheat?
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Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
So I guess doping is evil, but pedophilia and abuse of young athletes is ok?
There is a new exposé by Indianapolis Star that talks about systemic sex abuse of US athletes by their coaches.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-sex-abuse-protected-coaches/85829732/
So I guess doping is evil, but pedophilia and abuse of young athletes is ok?
There is a new exposé by Indianapolis Star that talks about systemic sex abuse of US athletes by their coaches.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-sex-abuse-protected-coaches/85829732/
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE SIDE ON THE REASONS FOR THE ONGOING OLYMPIC-RUSSIA DOPING SCANDAL.
Russian Doping Scandal: the Motive
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/russian-doping-scandal-motive.html
There have been many excellent articles written on this leading up to and after the IOC decision not to impose a blanket ban on all Russian athletes participating in the Rio Olympics and I see no purpose in repeating the same facts over again. I have a few extra observations to make concerning the reasons why this is happening. I recommend: Andrey Fomin https://off-guardian.org/…/the-olympics-as-a-tool-in-the-n…/: Alexander Mercouris:http://theduran.com/criticisms-iocs-refusal-ban-russian-at…/: and The Saker:http://thesaker.is/…/theduran.com/russia-world-grateful-ioc/:http://theduran.com/author/rick-sterling/:
In case you have not heard what the western MSM is not telling you, I will just outline the most important points which are being omitted or distorted by the western, media, sports bodies and politicians alike.
First: All Russian athletes have for the last seven months been tested not only by their own anti doping organization BUT BY THE BRITISH ONE TOO at some considerable expense to the Russian tax payer.
Any Russian athletes that made it to Rio are the squeakiest clean of the squeaky clean.
Second: The so called WADA report which claims that Russian doping is “state funded” and which is being reported universally by the western media, politicians, sports bodies and even some athletes as a serious, proven indictment is, in fact based on nothing more than the hearsay of one individual who is a wanted criminal in Russia on anabolic steroid trafficking charges and has tried to commit suicide and who is now “in hiding” in the USA.
It contains not one jot of serious proof or evidence at all! I repeat; NOT A SINGLE PEACE OF EVIDENCE OR ANY FACT that would stand up in a court of law for more than a few seconds. NO Russian athletes or sports officials have been questioned, cross examined and hence given any chance to defend themselves or present any of the totally lacking FACTS essential to a fair process.
Third: The so called, by the western press, “brave whistle blower” and her husband are convicted dopers who's careers had collapsed until they joined this US lead campaign to get the Russian team banned from the Olympics. All three individuals are connected and the whole case is built on them and nobody and nothing else. They are also resident in the US. See above articles for details.
In my opinion this plot, for that is clearly what it is, was hatched way back in 2014 when the US and EU were seething with anger that the main goal (albeit one out of many) of their illegal putsch in Ukraine, that is the occupation of Crimea and the capture of the Sevastopol Russian naval base and its takeover by NATO, had been thwarted.
At the time the main motive was, as with all the other western plots concerning Russia, regime change in the Kremlin to a western puppet who will hand over Russia's natural resources to the western corporations that constitute the military industrial complex and aid instead of resist US corporate hegemony over the whole world.
The idea was that if Russia can be shut out of the Olympics then famous athletes, politicians and the public will turn on the government and Vladimir Putin and blame them and above all him and a palace coup or a colour revolution can be staged as in Kiev or as the west managed to pull off in 1917.
Everything The US and their EU vassals have tried has had this one overriding motive behind it and everything they have tried has not only failed but had the exact opposite effect. The now exposed and busted Magnitsky plot banned dozens of Russian officials from traveling to the US because of their supposed hand in accountant Magnitsky's death in prison.
The idea being that these people are all so corrupt and treacherous that the minute they can't access their Manhattan apartments or Florida villas they would turn on Putin and stab him in the back. It didn't happen. Then came the sanctioning of even more Russians, this time from travel to the EU and Japan as well as the US, after the Crimean referendum and reunification with Russia.
Far from stabbing Putin in the back or even blaming him these officials rallied behind the leader and the country. There was criticism, public and private but not for resisting the west but for being too accommodating and for not having better prepared to resist the west's onslaught. The economic sanctions were supposed to have the same effect on the general population but again it has had quite the opposite effect. Russia is now consolidated as almost never before and the west less popular and less respected in Russia than ever before.
Given these facts I think that the instigators of the doping plot hardly believed when they set it in motion about six months ago that it would ever deliver them regime change in Russia. So why did they do it? Sheer spite” Well yes I do believe that is one of the reasons. Another is almost certainly an attempt to maintain or tighten the, now utterly corrupt west's hold on international sports governing bodies but more urgently they wanted to prevent Russia having any positive publicity in the world, something they manage to do in North America and Europe by their total control of the media.
In the western world today the only people who know anything worth knowing, apart from the ruling elites themselves of course, are those who get their information online. Were the Olympic games taking place in The US, Canada or Australia etc I'm sure they could be confident that Team Russia would be loyally booed by the crowd most of whom would have their “opinions” formed by the western MSM.
This was being discussed very seriously by the BBC journalists on TV after it was announced that Russia would not face a blanket ban. “Would the poor athletes be able to stand the psychological stress of being booed by the public? Maybe it would be kinder to ban them for the sake of their own mental health, poor dears” etc. in spite of the fact that much of the media in Latin America is as I understand under western control, I'm not at all sure however that in Brazil, that is going to happen. In my opinion the western elites are petrified that team Russia might get a very positive response from what will obviously be a largely Brazilian and Latin American public.
There can hardly be a single country, big or small south of the US Mexican border who's government has not been regime changed by the US at least once including most recently, Brazil itself. The peoples of those countries have little reason to love the US. They know perfectly well that they are kept in semi-poverty, sometimes abject poverty by the manipulation of the US dollar hegemony financial system and that the huge potential of that continent is stymied and thwarted by the profoundly anti free-enterprise machinations of the US and its EU vassals. They have watched over the last 3 years how Russia has withstood the onslaught of US, EU hybrid war and has won on every count (apart from the fact that Ukraine remains fallen).
I can't help feeling that Russia and Vladimir Putin are likely to be rather popular in Latin America and the leaders of the western world do not want that to be visible on western TV screens. I remember at the opening ceremony of the London games, when the Russian team was announced and entered the stadium, the BBC coverage immediately switched to other teams already inside and didn't give them the same exposure as everybody else and the hybrid war has hotted up enormously since then.. Assuming team Russia marches in the opening ceremony I would bet that Soros, Nuland et al are furiously trying to recruit "professional" paid booers in Rio right now!
I remain less optimistic than some about the creation of a troika, all three from NATO countries, Spain, Germany and Turkey. Apparently they have a Nero like, thumbs up or thumbs down, final say over the fate of team Russia. Were they to reinstate a blanket ban on the Russian team this would be a fatal hole in the hundred and twenty year old ship that is the Olympic Games. It will sink slowly, slower than the Titanic but sink it will or; it will become a hollow farce controlled by the western elite.
I like millions of children all over the world remember being taught at school the symbolism of the interlocking Olympic rings and of brotherhood and free and fair competition between nations from all corners of the earth.
The attempt to ban clean athletes from the games because of their race is utterly unprecedented in the history of the modern games and is far more corrosive of human sporting endeavour than previous problems such as boycotts and really shows the depth of the moral, spiritual and intellectual collapse of the west.
Even some western athletes have put there names to articles published in newspapers full of racial prejudice, conjecture, rumor mongering and stereotyping. The sad fact is that there can be no hope at all for free and fair competition in sport if international sporting bodies are dominated by individuals from western nations. There is very good reason to call for a ban on citizens from the US, UK, Canada and Australia from serving on any international sporting bodies as they are all controlled by the ruling elites of those countries and do their bidding which is only concerned with global domination and nothing else.
Let us remind ourselves of the real reason that these western elites are going to so much trouble and effort to demonize and provoke Russia. They are preparing for war with her! Every country and leader that was vilified by the west was then invaded by the west once it was deemed that public opinion had been prepared and Russia will not be an exception no matter how insane that seems to rational, conscious individuals. As I stated above, everything else they have tried has failed. They have only two choices left. Capitulation and the continued collapse of their global power or... total war! The preparations for this war have been progressing relentlessly and have not been paused for a millisecond no matter how many meetings and international discussions diplomats have had. Due to the fact the Russia has steadfastly refused to be baited into taking the first step over the last three years western public opinion has begun to see through the web of lies but too few and, I'm afraid, too late. The elites are more likely to see this as a reason to strike sooner as waiting firther might be their undoing We could be talking months rather than years now.
Meanwhile there will be an Olympics of some sort in Brazil. They are already tarnished and while the main victims are obviously the Russian athletes and para athletes, Brazil has had its games sullied by its great northern neighbour. While the main reason for the regime change in Brazil was obviously to sabotage the BRICS project, the second was certainly to safeguard the US, UK plot against Russia's participation. The “bankers” in power in Brazil today remain silent whereas the deposed government most probably would not have done so. The question really is will these Olympic games be the last as we know them or will they be the last ever Olympics FULL STOP?
SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE SIDE ON THE REASONS FOR THE ONGOING OLYMPIC-RUSSIA DOPING SCANDAL.
Russian Doping Scandal: the Motive
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/russian-doping-scandal-motive.html
There have been many excellent articles written on this leading up to and after the IOC decision not to impose a blanket ban on all Russian athletes participating in the Rio Olympics and I see no purpose in repeating the same facts over again. I have a few extra observations to make concerning the reasons why this is happening. I recommend: Andrey Fomin https://off-guardian.org/…/the-olympics-as-a-tool-in-the-n…/: Alexander Mercouris:http://theduran.com/criticisms-iocs-refusal-ban-russian-at…/: and The Saker:http://thesaker.is/…/theduran.com/russia-world-grateful-ioc/:http://theduran.com/author/rick-sterling/:
In case you have not heard what the western MSM is not telling you, I will just outline the most important points which are being omitted or distorted by the western, media, sports bodies and politicians alike.
First: All Russian athletes have for the last seven months been tested not only by their own anti doping organization BUT BY THE BRITISH ONE TOO at some considerable expense to the Russian tax payer.
Any Russian athletes that made it to Rio are the squeakiest clean of the squeaky clean.
Second: The so called WADA report which claims that Russian doping is “state funded” and which is being reported universally by the western media, politicians, sports bodies and even some athletes as a serious, proven indictment is, in fact based on nothing more than the hearsay of one individual who is a wanted criminal in Russia on anabolic steroid trafficking charges and has tried to commit suicide and who is now “in hiding” in the USA.
It contains not one jot of serious proof or evidence at all! I repeat; NOT A SINGLE PEACE OF EVIDENCE OR ANY FACT that would stand up in a court of law for more than a few seconds. NO Russian athletes or sports officials have been questioned, cross examined and hence given any chance to defend themselves or present any of the totally lacking FACTS essential to a fair process.
Third: The so called, by the western press, “brave whistle blower” and her husband are convicted dopers who's careers had collapsed until they joined this US lead campaign to get the Russian team banned from the Olympics. All three individuals are connected and the whole case is built on them and nobody and nothing else. They are also resident in the US. See above articles for details.
In my opinion this plot, for that is clearly what it is, was hatched way back in 2014 when the US and EU were seething with anger that the main goal (albeit one out of many) of their illegal putsch in Ukraine, that is the occupation of Crimea and the capture of the Sevastopol Russian naval base and its takeover by NATO, had been thwarted.
At the time the main motive was, as with all the other western plots concerning Russia, regime change in the Kremlin to a western puppet who will hand over Russia's natural resources to the western corporations that constitute the military industrial complex and aid instead of resist US corporate hegemony over the whole world.
The idea was that if Russia can be shut out of the Olympics then famous athletes, politicians and the public will turn on the government and Vladimir Putin and blame them and above all him and a palace coup or a colour revolution can be staged as in Kiev or as the west managed to pull off in 1917.
Everything The US and their EU vassals have tried has had this one overriding motive behind it and everything they have tried has not only failed but had the exact opposite effect. The now exposed and busted Magnitsky plot banned dozens of Russian officials from traveling to the US because of their supposed hand in accountant Magnitsky's death in prison.
The idea being that these people are all so corrupt and treacherous that the minute they can't access their Manhattan apartments or Florida villas they would turn on Putin and stab him in the back. It didn't happen. Then came the sanctioning of even more Russians, this time from travel to the EU and Japan as well as the US, after the Crimean referendum and reunification with Russia.
Far from stabbing Putin in the back or even blaming him these officials rallied behind the leader and the country. There was criticism, public and private but not for resisting the west but for being too accommodating and for not having better prepared to resist the west's onslaught. The economic sanctions were supposed to have the same effect on the general population but again it has had quite the opposite effect. Russia is now consolidated as almost never before and the west less popular and less respected in Russia than ever before.
Given these facts I think that the instigators of the doping plot hardly believed when they set it in motion about six months ago that it would ever deliver them regime change in Russia. So why did they do it? Sheer spite” Well yes I do believe that is one of the reasons. Another is almost certainly an attempt to maintain or tighten the, now utterly corrupt west's hold on international sports governing bodies but more urgently they wanted to prevent Russia having any positive publicity in the world, something they manage to do in North America and Europe by their total control of the media.
In the western world today the only people who know anything worth knowing, apart from the ruling elites themselves of course, are those who get their information online. Were the Olympic games taking place in The US, Canada or Australia etc I'm sure they could be confident that Team Russia would be loyally booed by the crowd most of whom would have their “opinions” formed by the western MSM.
This was being discussed very seriously by the BBC journalists on TV after it was announced that Russia would not face a blanket ban. “Would the poor athletes be able to stand the psychological stress of being booed by the public? Maybe it would be kinder to ban them for the sake of their own mental health, poor dears” etc. in spite of the fact that much of the media in Latin America is as I understand under western control, I'm not at all sure however that in Brazil, that is going to happen. In my opinion the western elites are petrified that team Russia might get a very positive response from what will obviously be a largely Brazilian and Latin American public.
There can hardly be a single country, big or small south of the US Mexican border who's government has not been regime changed by the US at least once including most recently, Brazil itself. The peoples of those countries have little reason to love the US. They know perfectly well that they are kept in semi-poverty, sometimes abject poverty by the manipulation of the US dollar hegemony financial system and that the huge potential of that continent is stymied and thwarted by the profoundly anti free-enterprise machinations of the US and its EU vassals. They have watched over the last 3 years how Russia has withstood the onslaught of US, EU hybrid war and has won on every count (apart from the fact that Ukraine remains fallen).
I can't help feeling that Russia and Vladimir Putin are likely to be rather popular in Latin America and the leaders of the western world do not want that to be visible on western TV screens. I remember at the opening ceremony of the London games, when the Russian team was announced and entered the stadium, the BBC coverage immediately switched to other teams already inside and didn't give them the same exposure as everybody else and the hybrid war has hotted up enormously since then.. Assuming team Russia marches in the opening ceremony I would bet that Soros, Nuland et al are furiously trying to recruit "professional" paid booers in Rio right now!
I remain less optimistic than some about the creation of a troika, all three from NATO countries, Spain, Germany and Turkey. Apparently they have a Nero like, thumbs up or thumbs down, final say over the fate of team Russia. Were they to reinstate a blanket ban on the Russian team this would be a fatal hole in the hundred and twenty year old ship that is the Olympic Games. It will sink slowly, slower than the Titanic but sink it will or; it will become a hollow farce controlled by the western elite.
I like millions of children all over the world remember being taught at school the symbolism of the interlocking Olympic rings and of brotherhood and free and fair competition between nations from all corners of the earth.
The attempt to ban clean athletes from the games because of their race is utterly unprecedented in the history of the modern games and is far more corrosive of human sporting endeavour than previous problems such as boycotts and really shows the depth of the moral, spiritual and intellectual collapse of the west.
Even some western athletes have put there names to articles published in newspapers full of racial prejudice, conjecture, rumor mongering and stereotyping. The sad fact is that there can be no hope at all for free and fair competition in sport if international sporting bodies are dominated by individuals from western nations. There is very good reason to call for a ban on citizens from the US, UK, Canada and Australia from serving on any international sporting bodies as they are all controlled by the ruling elites of those countries and do their bidding which is only concerned with global domination and nothing else.
Let us remind ourselves of the real reason that these western elites are going to so much trouble and effort to demonize and provoke Russia. They are preparing for war with her! Every country and leader that was vilified by the west was then invaded by the west once it was deemed that public opinion had been prepared and Russia will not be an exception no matter how insane that seems to rational, conscious individuals. As I stated above, everything else they have tried has failed. They have only two choices left. Capitulation and the continued collapse of their global power or... total war! The preparations for this war have been progressing relentlessly and have not been paused for a millisecond no matter how many meetings and international discussions diplomats have had. Due to the fact the Russia has steadfastly refused to be baited into taking the first step over the last three years western public opinion has begun to see through the web of lies but too few and, I'm afraid, too late. The elites are more likely to see this as a reason to strike sooner as waiting firther might be their undoing We could be talking months rather than years now.
Meanwhile there will be an Olympics of some sort in Brazil. They are already tarnished and while the main victims are obviously the Russian athletes and para athletes, Brazil has had its games sullied by its great northern neighbour. While the main reason for the regime change in Brazil was obviously to sabotage the BRICS project, the second was certainly to safeguard the US, UK plot against Russia's participation. The “bankers” in power in Brazil today remain silent whereas the deposed government most probably would not have done so. The question really is will these Olympic games be the last as we know them or will they be the last ever Olympics FULL STOP?
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
E-mail account of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Russian informant Yulia Stepanova was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account, according to media reports.
WADA Informant Stepanova’s E-Mail Account Hacked to Uncover Location
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160813/1044232863/wada-russia-doping.html
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Russian informant Yuliya Stepanova’s e-mail and ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account were hacked to locate her, media reported Saturday, citing her representative’s e-mail.
On Monday, Stepanova and her husband planned to make an announcement ahead of the women’s 800m race at the Rio Olympics, from which the Russian runner had been banned to participate by the International Olympic Committee.
"Yuliya's e-mail account was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS account, i.e. her anti-doping control account at WADA,'' the e-mail sent to the ESPN broadcaster said.
WADA confirmed that her account was the only athlete account that was hacked proving that someone had attempted to uncover her undisclosed location in the United States, released in late 2014.
The Russian runner, who had left Russia with her family, was also a key witness in the WADA investigation into allegations that dozens of Russian athletes used performance-enhancing drugs at the 2014 Winter Olympics. WADA accused Russia of running a state-wide doping program and recommended to ban the team from the 2016 Olympic Games.
WADA Concerned About Banning Informant Stepanova From 2016 Rio Olympics
http://sputniknews.com/sport/20160725/1043574255/wada-stepanova-whistleblower-olympics.html
Back dated July 27, 2016 - On Sunday, the IOC Executive Board decided to deny the request of Russian track and field athlete and World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) informant Julia Stepanova for a permission to take part in the 2016 Olympics, citing an advice of the IOC Ethics Commission.
"WADA has been very vocal in supporting Yulia’s desire to compete as an independent athlete. Ms. Stepanova was instrumental in courageously exposing the single biggest doping scandal of all time. WADA is very concerned by the message that this sends whistleblowers for the future," Niggli said on Sunday, as quoted by the press release issued on the agency’s website.
Last week an independent WADA commission presented a report based on the results of its investigation into allegations that dozens of Russian athletes used performance-enhancing drugs at the 2014 Winter Olympics. WADA accused Russia of running a state-wide doping program and recommended to ban the team from the 2016 Olympic Games.
On Sunday, the IOC made a decision not to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from participation in the upcoming games in Rio, choosing to leave it to the individual sports federations to decide on athletes' participation. The IOC also banned all Russian athletes with doping record from the games.
Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova says email has been hacked
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/17291432/russian-whistleblower-yuliya-stepanova-says-email-hacked
Journalists from multiple international media outlets received an unsigned email early Saturday morning from a private Switzerland-based group that has been supporting Stepanova and her husband Vitaly Stepanov with a fundraising effort also endorsed by several past and current prominent Olympic athletes.
The Stepanovs plan to make public comments on Monday ahead of Wednesday's preliminary heats of the Olympic women's 800-meter race, which Stepanova had hoped to enter as a neutral athlete following the suspension of the Russian track and field federation.
Patrick K. Magyar, one of the coordinators for the group, confirmed the email's authorship to ESPN.com but declined any further comment about the precautions the couple are taking.
"Yuliya's e-mail account was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account, i.e. her anti-doping control account at WADA,'' the email said. "WADA confirmed that her account was the only athlete account that was hacked, which makes clear that Yuliya was victim of an attempt to uncover her whereabouts.''
WADA could not be immediately reached for comment.
Vitaly Stepanov, who worked for the now-discredited Russian Anti-Doping Agency, corresponded with WADA for four years starting in 2010 about his observations of doping and corruption in Russian track and field. Yuliya Stepanova joined her husband as an informant after being suspended for biological passport abnormalities in 2013.
The Stepanovs fled Russia in advance of a November 2014 German television documentary that used their secretly recorded footage and other information to expose extensive organized doping in Russian track and field. They lived briefly in Berlin before coming to the United States in late 2015, and were key witnesses in a WADA investigation.
The IAAF, track and field's international governing body, allowed Stepanova to compete at the European Championships in July. She was hampered by an injury and hobbled to the finish of the 800-meter event. Despite support from the IAAF and WADA, the International Olympic Committee denied Stepanova's request to compete at the Rio Games.
An independent online petition to appeal the IOC decision started by a German citizen, Kaj Beuter, has collected more than 270,000 signatures, according to the email.
Mail informant WADA Stepanova hacked in an attempt to find her location
https://latestnewsresource.com/en/news/breaking-news-pochtu-informatora-wada-stepanovoj-vzlomali-v-popytke-uznat-ee-mestonahozhdenie
WADA confirmed that the attack was subjected to only email and account in the system ADAMS (anti-doping administration and management) Stepanova. "This suggests that someone was trying to uncover her whereabouts," the Agency.
1 Aug Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of the Russian anti-doping Agency (RUSADA), also became an informant WADA, complained of on death threats. Most of them came through the social network.
31 July, the international Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended Stepanov from participation in the Olympic games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, as in 2013, the athlete was disqualified for two years for doping.
At the beginning of June reported, what Stepanov has received financial assistance for the provision of information for a documentary TV channel ARD about doping in Russian sports. They had previously accused at least four Russian athletes won gold medals at the Olympics in Sochi, in the use of illegal drugs.
Sharing photos of the athletes from Russia and Ukraine angered Poroshenko's adviser
https://latestnewsresource.com/en/news/breaking-news-sovmestnoe-foto-sportsmenov-iz-rossii-i-ukrainy-vozmutilo-sovetnika-poroshenko
Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov expressed his outrage over published in Instagram
pictures of the Ukrainian Olympians to which they embrace with Russian athletes.
This Biryukov wrote in his Facebook:
"Very gloomy mood, I want a lot of dirty tricks to slander about our gallant athletes. Not everyone, of course, there are normal. But stsuko, obnimantsy with representatives of the Horde?" — wrote Advisor to the Ukrainian President.
He also added that, in his view, "fans can take pictures with the Horde would benefit if the money allocated for their trip to the Olympics, would be transferred to the budget of the Armed forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The put Russian tennis player Andrey Kuznetsov. In the comments to the photo, he wrote: "we actually all get along." The athlete later deleted the photo, but it managed to publish in the media and blogs, in particular, Sports.ru. The picture shows Ilya Marchenko (Ukraine), Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia), coach Dmitry Chaises (Ukraine), Evgeny Donskoy (Russia), Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine), Igor Kunitsyn (Russia), Denis Molchanov (Ukraine) and Teymuraz Gabashvili (Russia).
Sports.ru photo:
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/greatness/1018104.html
E-mail account of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Russian informant Yulia Stepanova was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account, according to media reports.
WADA Informant Stepanova’s E-Mail Account Hacked to Uncover Location
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160813/1044232863/wada-russia-doping.html
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Russian informant Yuliya Stepanova’s e-mail and ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account were hacked to locate her, media reported Saturday, citing her representative’s e-mail.
On Monday, Stepanova and her husband planned to make an announcement ahead of the women’s 800m race at the Rio Olympics, from which the Russian runner had been banned to participate by the International Olympic Committee.
"Yuliya's e-mail account was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS account, i.e. her anti-doping control account at WADA,'' the e-mail sent to the ESPN broadcaster said.
WADA confirmed that her account was the only athlete account that was hacked proving that someone had attempted to uncover her undisclosed location in the United States, released in late 2014.
The Russian runner, who had left Russia with her family, was also a key witness in the WADA investigation into allegations that dozens of Russian athletes used performance-enhancing drugs at the 2014 Winter Olympics. WADA accused Russia of running a state-wide doping program and recommended to ban the team from the 2016 Olympic Games.
WADA Concerned About Banning Informant Stepanova From 2016 Rio Olympics
http://sputniknews.com/sport/20160725/1043574255/wada-stepanova-whistleblower-olympics.html
Back dated July 27, 2016 - On Sunday, the IOC Executive Board decided to deny the request of Russian track and field athlete and World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) informant Julia Stepanova for a permission to take part in the 2016 Olympics, citing an advice of the IOC Ethics Commission.
"WADA has been very vocal in supporting Yulia’s desire to compete as an independent athlete. Ms. Stepanova was instrumental in courageously exposing the single biggest doping scandal of all time. WADA is very concerned by the message that this sends whistleblowers for the future," Niggli said on Sunday, as quoted by the press release issued on the agency’s website.
Last week an independent WADA commission presented a report based on the results of its investigation into allegations that dozens of Russian athletes used performance-enhancing drugs at the 2014 Winter Olympics. WADA accused Russia of running a state-wide doping program and recommended to ban the team from the 2016 Olympic Games.
On Sunday, the IOC made a decision not to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from participation in the upcoming games in Rio, choosing to leave it to the individual sports federations to decide on athletes' participation. The IOC also banned all Russian athletes with doping record from the games.
Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova says email has been hacked
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/17291432/russian-whistleblower-yuliya-stepanova-says-email-hacked
Journalists from multiple international media outlets received an unsigned email early Saturday morning from a private Switzerland-based group that has been supporting Stepanova and her husband Vitaly Stepanov with a fundraising effort also endorsed by several past and current prominent Olympic athletes.
The Stepanovs plan to make public comments on Monday ahead of Wednesday's preliminary heats of the Olympic women's 800-meter race, which Stepanova had hoped to enter as a neutral athlete following the suspension of the Russian track and field federation.
Patrick K. Magyar, one of the coordinators for the group, confirmed the email's authorship to ESPN.com but declined any further comment about the precautions the couple are taking.
"Yuliya's e-mail account was hacked, followed a few hours later by a hack of her ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) account, i.e. her anti-doping control account at WADA,'' the email said. "WADA confirmed that her account was the only athlete account that was hacked, which makes clear that Yuliya was victim of an attempt to uncover her whereabouts.''
WADA could not be immediately reached for comment.
Vitaly Stepanov, who worked for the now-discredited Russian Anti-Doping Agency, corresponded with WADA for four years starting in 2010 about his observations of doping and corruption in Russian track and field. Yuliya Stepanova joined her husband as an informant after being suspended for biological passport abnormalities in 2013.
The Stepanovs fled Russia in advance of a November 2014 German television documentary that used their secretly recorded footage and other information to expose extensive organized doping in Russian track and field. They lived briefly in Berlin before coming to the United States in late 2015, and were key witnesses in a WADA investigation.
The IAAF, track and field's international governing body, allowed Stepanova to compete at the European Championships in July. She was hampered by an injury and hobbled to the finish of the 800-meter event. Despite support from the IAAF and WADA, the International Olympic Committee denied Stepanova's request to compete at the Rio Games.
An independent online petition to appeal the IOC decision started by a German citizen, Kaj Beuter, has collected more than 270,000 signatures, according to the email.
Mail informant WADA Stepanova hacked in an attempt to find her location
https://latestnewsresource.com/en/news/breaking-news-pochtu-informatora-wada-stepanovoj-vzlomali-v-popytke-uznat-ee-mestonahozhdenie
WADA confirmed that the attack was subjected to only email and account in the system ADAMS (anti-doping administration and management) Stepanova. "This suggests that someone was trying to uncover her whereabouts," the Agency.
1 Aug Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of the Russian anti-doping Agency (RUSADA), also became an informant WADA, complained of on death threats. Most of them came through the social network.
31 July, the international Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended Stepanov from participation in the Olympic games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, as in 2013, the athlete was disqualified for two years for doping.
At the beginning of June reported, what Stepanov has received financial assistance for the provision of information for a documentary TV channel ARD about doping in Russian sports. They had previously accused at least four Russian athletes won gold medals at the Olympics in Sochi, in the use of illegal drugs.
Sharing photos of the athletes from Russia and Ukraine angered Poroshenko's adviser
https://latestnewsresource.com/en/news/breaking-news-sovmestnoe-foto-sportsmenov-iz-rossii-i-ukrainy-vozmutilo-sovetnika-poroshenko
Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov expressed his outrage over published in Instagram
pictures of the Ukrainian Olympians to which they embrace with Russian athletes.
This Biryukov wrote in his Facebook:
"Very gloomy mood, I want a lot of dirty tricks to slander about our gallant athletes. Not everyone, of course, there are normal. But stsuko, obnimantsy with representatives of the Horde?" — wrote Advisor to the Ukrainian President.
He also added that, in his view, "fans can take pictures with the Horde would benefit if the money allocated for their trip to the Olympics, would be transferred to the budget of the Armed forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The put Russian tennis player Andrey Kuznetsov. In the comments to the photo, he wrote: "we actually all get along." The athlete later deleted the photo, but it managed to publish in the media and blogs, in particular, Sports.ru. The picture shows Ilya Marchenko (Ukraine), Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia), coach Dmitry Chaises (Ukraine), Evgeny Donskoy (Russia), Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine), Igor Kunitsyn (Russia), Denis Molchanov (Ukraine) and Teymuraz Gabashvili (Russia).
Sports.ru photo:
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/greatness/1018104.html
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
In the past several days the following news has been circulating on the Russian web, that apparently Western scientists found a way to significantly improve athletic performance, and do it within legal bounds.
Apparently in 2011 researchers at the University of Oxford invented an energy drink called DeltaG that contains "synthesized ketons". Here's an article as an example that talks about this drink
Apparently DeltaG supposed to become available for sale only in the end of 2016, but 300 undisclosed athletes already test it. So some Russians speculate if this could be a reason for "extraordinary wins" US had. Like the fact that Katie Ledecky (the swimmer) finished 12 seconds before everyone else. While usually the difference between the first and second place can be microseconds.
But hey, if ketons are the key to success, then all the athletes just need to eat more bacon. Or only bacon!
In the past several days the following news has been circulating on the Russian web, that apparently Western scientists found a way to significantly improve athletic performance, and do it within legal bounds.
Apparently in 2011 researchers at the University of Oxford invented an energy drink called DeltaG that contains "synthesized ketons". Here's an article as an example that talks about this drink
Apparently DeltaG supposed to become available for sale only in the end of 2016, but 300 undisclosed athletes already test it. So some Russians speculate if this could be a reason for "extraordinary wins" US had. Like the fact that Katie Ledecky (the swimmer) finished 12 seconds before everyone else. While usually the difference between the first and second place can be microseconds.
But hey, if ketons are the key to success, then all the athletes just need to eat more bacon. Or only bacon!
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
It sure looks like there's a lot of doping going on with athletes at the Olympics. Yeah, Katie Ledecky's win really makes you question things. In the past 3 years she's lowered the world record by over 9 seconds. In the previous 35 years, the world record had only been lowered by 10.52 seconds. You just don't see swimmers finishing 12 seconds before anyone else in the Olympics. Keep in mind, a half second is enormous in these competitions. Look at her lead when she finished and keep in mind, the yellow line is her world record from the year before:
The American women's gymnastics team is another case study. They won gold in the all around and finished more points ahead of the second place finisher than second place finished ahead of the last place finisher. Of course in gymnastics it isn't about who is fastest, but who is judged to be the best, but they have the 3 best women performers in the world right now, better than any other country's number one gymnast. Training doesn't seem to be the factor, nor does genes.
But it's not just the Americans that are breaking records in ways that make you wonder. South Africa's Wayde Van Niekerk just smashed the men's world record for the 400m, cutting 15 hundredths of a second off a 17-year old record. He did it from lane 8, where no runner had ever won a championship. Keep in mind, the silver medalist in this same race beat the gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics. Look at the lead Van Niekerk had on him:
Could this just be better athlete training? Sure. But if you know international athletics, you know that pretty much everyone is doping. If you don't dope, you don't compete. That's why it's so ridiculous how self-righteous Americans like Lily King and Michael Phelps act towards the Russians.
It sure looks like there's a lot of doping going on with athletes at the Olympics. Yeah, Katie Ledecky's win really makes you question things. In the past 3 years she's lowered the world record by over 9 seconds. In the previous 35 years, the world record had only been lowered by 10.52 seconds. You just don't see swimmers finishing 12 seconds before anyone else in the Olympics. Keep in mind, a half second is enormous in these competitions. Look at her lead when she finished and keep in mind, the yellow line is her world record from the year before:
The American women's gymnastics team is another case study. They won gold in the all around and finished more points ahead of the second place finisher than second place finished ahead of the last place finisher. Of course in gymnastics it isn't about who is fastest, but who is judged to be the best, but they have the 3 best women performers in the world right now, better than any other country's number one gymnast. Training doesn't seem to be the factor, nor does genes.
But it's not just the Americans that are breaking records in ways that make you wonder. South Africa's Wayde Van Niekerk just smashed the men's world record for the 400m, cutting 15 hundredths of a second off a 17-year old record. He did it from lane 8, where no runner had ever won a championship. Keep in mind, the silver medalist in this same race beat the gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics. Look at the lead Van Niekerk had on him:
Could this just be better athlete training? Sure. But if you know international athletics, you know that pretty much everyone is doping. If you don't dope, you don't compete. That's why it's so ridiculous how self-righteous Americans like Lily King and Michael Phelps act towards the Russians.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
Some reported events surrounding the Rio Olympic games.
The first is a bad translation into English but from what I can understand, cables broke on an aerial camera and injured three. Additional information is lacking.
Aerial Camera Falls in Rio Olympic Park, Injures Three
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160815/1044300342/aerial-camera-rio-olympic-park.html
An aerial camera suspended by cables left in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park on Monday and left two women and a child injured, local media reported.
According to the O Globo newspaper, the three got minor injuries and were taken to a nearby medical clinic to receive treatment.
The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT), according to the media outlet.
Brazil Flags in Rio to Fly at Half-Staff to Honor Former FIFA Chief Havelange
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160816/1044330926/brazil-fifa-chief.html
Havelange died at the age of 100 earlier in the day. The Brazilian headed the world football’s governing body FIFA from 1974 to 1998 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee for almost 50 years.
"We deeply regret the death of Havelange. Flags will be lowered to half-mast at all Olympic stadiums," Andrada told reporters.
Sepp Blatter’s predecessor served as FIFA’s honorary president until 2013 when he was implicated in a bribery scandal. He was admitted to a clinic with pulmonary problems three times in the past few years and was treated for pneumonia in early July.
Olympic Gore: Severed Leg Washes Up in Rio’s Guanabara Bay
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160816/1044304302/severed-leg-found.html
Police were notified by Ilha do Governador residents who spotted the male leg, which had been removed from the body at the hip, floating along the coastline. Police said the name “Kuan” was tattooed on the calf, though a representative from the Rio homicide department said it is unlikely a victim will be identified.
"The leg was taken away to be examined. Samples will be taken in case anyone comes forward to report anyone missing,” the representative said, “But they will not be compared with lists of people already reported as missing. It is very common to find body parts in the Guanabara Bay. It was probably someone murdered by the drug gangs who was dumped in one of the rivers that flow into the bay."
Sailors training for the Olympics have noted that Guanabara’s waters contain plastic bags, debris and even the occasional sofa. Researchers say antibiotic-resistant bacteria and raw sewage seep into waters that are the playing field for triathletes and swimmers. A woman’s derriere washed up on the coastline in a plastic bag last month and was discovered by children.
Sailing events scheduled to take place over the next four days in Rio are expected to continue as scheduled.
Some reported events surrounding the Rio Olympic games.
The first is a bad translation into English but from what I can understand, cables broke on an aerial camera and injured three. Additional information is lacking.
Aerial Camera Falls in Rio Olympic Park, Injures Three
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160815/1044300342/aerial-camera-rio-olympic-park.html
An aerial camera suspended by cables left in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park on Monday and left two women and a child injured, local media reported.
According to the O Globo newspaper, the three got minor injuries and were taken to a nearby medical clinic to receive treatment.
The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT), according to the media outlet.
Brazil Flags in Rio to Fly at Half-Staff to Honor Former FIFA Chief Havelange
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160816/1044330926/brazil-fifa-chief.html
Havelange died at the age of 100 earlier in the day. The Brazilian headed the world football’s governing body FIFA from 1974 to 1998 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee for almost 50 years.
"We deeply regret the death of Havelange. Flags will be lowered to half-mast at all Olympic stadiums," Andrada told reporters.
Sepp Blatter’s predecessor served as FIFA’s honorary president until 2013 when he was implicated in a bribery scandal. He was admitted to a clinic with pulmonary problems three times in the past few years and was treated for pneumonia in early July.
Olympic Gore: Severed Leg Washes Up in Rio’s Guanabara Bay
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160816/1044304302/severed-leg-found.html
Police were notified by Ilha do Governador residents who spotted the male leg, which had been removed from the body at the hip, floating along the coastline. Police said the name “Kuan” was tattooed on the calf, though a representative from the Rio homicide department said it is unlikely a victim will be identified.
"The leg was taken away to be examined. Samples will be taken in case anyone comes forward to report anyone missing,” the representative said, “But they will not be compared with lists of people already reported as missing. It is very common to find body parts in the Guanabara Bay. It was probably someone murdered by the drug gangs who was dumped in one of the rivers that flow into the bay."
Sailors training for the Olympics have noted that Guanabara’s waters contain plastic bags, debris and even the occasional sofa. Researchers say antibiotic-resistant bacteria and raw sewage seep into waters that are the playing field for triathletes and swimmers. A woman’s derriere washed up on the coastline in a plastic bag last month and was discovered by children.
Sailing events scheduled to take place over the next four days in Rio are expected to continue as scheduled.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
European Olympic Committee and Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) President Patrick Hickey has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro on suspicion of illegal Olympic ticket sales.
European Olympic Committee Head Arrested Over Ticket Speculation in Brazil
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160817/1044356002/hickey-arrested-ticket-speculation.html
Hickey was arrested at a hotel and is suspected of organizing the passing of tickets to a company that would later sell them in Ireland, a process managed through the OCI, the Globo G1 news website reported, citing Brazilian police.
THG Sports, owned by UK businessman Marcus Evans, is now under investigation as the intermediary in the speculation scheme, according to the media outlet.
Police also reportedly arrested 20 ticket buyers present in the hotel, a well as a man in possession of nearly 800 illegal tickets.
The Summer Olympic Games are being held in Rio de Janeiro from August 5 until August 21.
European Olympic Committee and Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) President Patrick Hickey has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro on suspicion of illegal Olympic ticket sales.
European Olympic Committee Head Arrested Over Ticket Speculation in Brazil
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160817/1044356002/hickey-arrested-ticket-speculation.html
Hickey was arrested at a hotel and is suspected of organizing the passing of tickets to a company that would later sell them in Ireland, a process managed through the OCI, the Globo G1 news website reported, citing Brazilian police.
THG Sports, owned by UK businessman Marcus Evans, is now under investigation as the intermediary in the speculation scheme, according to the media outlet.
Police also reportedly arrested 20 ticket buyers present in the hotel, a well as a man in possession of nearly 800 illegal tickets.
The Summer Olympic Games are being held in Rio de Janeiro from August 5 until August 21.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
US swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off a flight from Rio de Janeiro to the United States amid an investigation into a robbery case, a spokesman for the US Olympic Committee said.
US Olympic Swimmers Pulled Off Flight Home Amid Robbery Investigation
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160818/1044382238/us-swimmers-robbery-investigation.html
Earlier, US Department of State spokesperson Mark Toner said in a briefing that the United States encourages Olympic swimmers to cooperate with Brazilian authorities on a probe into suspicions the athletes feigned a robbery.
"We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities," the spokesman said as quoted by The New York Times on Wednesday.
A Brazilian judge ordered US swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen to stay in Rio three days after they claimed being robbed at gunpoint, as Brazilian law enforcement officials found inconsistencies in the swimmers' stories and wanted to determine if they had filed a false police report.
Lochte said that he and three other Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint by people claiming to be policemen on Sunday.
The New York Times reported citing Lochte’s lawyer on Wednesday that the swimmer had left Brazil before the judge issued the order to seize the passports of the swimmers.
Conger and Bentz were detained at the Rio de Janeiro Galeao International Airport on Wednesday and their passports were confiscated.
US swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off a flight from Rio de Janeiro to the United States amid an investigation into a robbery case, a spokesman for the US Olympic Committee said.
US Olympic Swimmers Pulled Off Flight Home Amid Robbery Investigation
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160818/1044382238/us-swimmers-robbery-investigation.html
Earlier, US Department of State spokesperson Mark Toner said in a briefing that the United States encourages Olympic swimmers to cooperate with Brazilian authorities on a probe into suspicions the athletes feigned a robbery.
"We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities," the spokesman said as quoted by The New York Times on Wednesday.
A Brazilian judge ordered US swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen to stay in Rio three days after they claimed being robbed at gunpoint, as Brazilian law enforcement officials found inconsistencies in the swimmers' stories and wanted to determine if they had filed a false police report.
Lochte said that he and three other Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint by people claiming to be policemen on Sunday.
The New York Times reported citing Lochte’s lawyer on Wednesday that the swimmer had left Brazil before the judge issued the order to seize the passports of the swimmers.
Conger and Bentz were detained at the Rio de Janeiro Galeao International Airport on Wednesday and their passports were confiscated.
Re: NYT article about Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympic Games
Indeed. Michael Phelps is another weird one. 28 medals in 3 Olympics and now 'the greatest Olympian since ancient Greece!'
It's known that he takes recreational drugs, and he has twice been sentenced for drink-driving.
He's a product of North Baltimore Aquatic Club, which has produced a dozen swimmers who competed in Olympics in the last 3 decades.
What are the odds of him not doping to improve performance?
Beau said:
Indeed. Michael Phelps is another weird one. 28 medals in 3 Olympics and now 'the greatest Olympian since ancient Greece!'
It's known that he takes recreational drugs, and he has twice been sentenced for drink-driving.
He's a product of North Baltimore Aquatic Club, which has produced a dozen swimmers who competed in Olympics in the last 3 decades.
What are the odds of him not doping to improve performance?
Here are some more 'awesome American Olympic champions'...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/18/ryan-lochte-us-swimmers-robbery-rio-gas-station
Turns out these swimming gold medallists made up a 'robbery in Rio' story because they wanted to cover up the fact that they got wasted during a night on the town, vandalized a gas station and attacked security guards.
Oh well, I guess they can blame it on the steroids!
ADDED: Oh no, wait, they can't blame 'roid rage' because they're all squeaky clean
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/18/ryan-lochte-us-swimmers-robbery-rio-gas-station
Turns out these swimming gold medallists made up a 'robbery in Rio' story because they wanted to cover up the fact that they got wasted during a night on the town, vandalized a gas station and attacked security guards.
Oh well, I guess they can blame it on the steroids!
ADDED: Oh no, wait, they can't blame 'roid rage' because they're all squeaky clean
I think it shows that there is an awful lot of corruption going on in every field of top-sport competition. Even for geopolitical reasons.
Heck, the US even manipulates Euro-song festival to render Russia out as a winner. All those international events in it's essence are meant to bring the World together, but US full spectrum dominance knows no bounds and even perverts sport and song events.
Controlling, manipulating and murdering on a global scale clearly isn't enough. US Pathocrats got their greedy little claws in everything.
And those US athletes mentioned are behaving just like them, like they own everyone, like they own the World.
Heck, the US even manipulates Euro-song festival to render Russia out as a winner. All those international events in it's essence are meant to bring the World together, but US full spectrum dominance knows no bounds and even perverts sport and song events.
Controlling, manipulating and murdering on a global scale clearly isn't enough. US Pathocrats got their greedy little claws in everything.
And those US athletes mentioned are behaving just like them, like they own everyone, like they own the World.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Niall said:Here are some more 'awesome American Olympic champions'...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/18/ryan-lochte-us-swimmers-robbery-rio-gas-station
Turns out these swimming gold medallists made up a 'robbery in Rio' story because they wanted to cover up the fact that they got wasted during a night on the town, vandalized a gas station and attacked security guards.
Oh well, I guess they can blame it on the steroids!
ADDED: Oh no, wait, they can't blame 'roid rage' because they're all squeaky clean
The video in the above article is a one minute condensed version. This is a four minute video of the same.
https://gma.yahoo.com/us-swimmer-fought-security-guard-night-alleged-robbery-140304199--abc-news-topstories.html#
As the police investigation continues into the alleged robbery of four U.S. Olympic swimmers in Rio, a Brazilian police source told ABC News that "one of the swimmers was seen on CCTV footage breaking down the door to the bathroom at [a] gas station and fighting with a security guard" on the night of the incident.
Police told ABC News that the swimmers "offered 100 reals and $20" to compensate for the damage.
Surveillance video from Brazil’s Globo TV shows the swimmers at a gas station.
Swimmer Ryan Lochte claimed on Sunday that he and three teammates were robbed in a taxi early that morning while heading to the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro.
Additional surveillance footage obtained by Globo TV shows the swimmers arriving at the French House party around 1:45 a.m. and leaving four hours later. According to the judge, the Olympic athletes claimed to have left the party at 4 a.m.
I think at this point the whole story of this fake robbery has been figured out by authorities. The swimmers were returning from a lavish party with a couple women (this could be part of the reason for hiding the facts, if the swimmers have other partners) in Rio around 6am when they stopped at a gas station. The attendant tells them to use the bathroom. The bathroom door was locked, so they broke it down and apparently peed on the walls of the building and broke the toilet seat. A security officer for the gas station intervenes and pulls out his gun (that part of Lochte's story is true). No one was robbed or hurt, and the swimmers returned to the Olympic village before police arrived. Ryan Lochte calls him mom and fabricates the story of being robbed. After the story is made public, the four swimmers are interviewed by the US Justice Dept. and told to keep quiet. Immediately after, Lochte "walked across the street” and gave an interview to NBC where he told his side of the story, including the infamous anecdote about how he replied to a gun to his head by saying “Whatever.”
We saw where the story went from there. As Niall says, this is the behavior of the awesome Americans. Most people know that when you are visiting a foreign country, you don't abuse the natives. As one man put it in the NYT article linked above, "The episode “has tapped into one of Brazilians’ biggest pet peeves — gringos who treat their country like a third-rate spring break destination where you can lie to the cops and get away with it,” said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at Americas Society and Council of the Americas."
That's about the extent of the situation, with Lochte as the ringleader of the "gringos" who peed on Rio, used their women and then lied about it for their own selfish interests. Quite an example of American values they set.
We saw where the story went from there. As Niall says, this is the behavior of the awesome Americans. Most people know that when you are visiting a foreign country, you don't abuse the natives. As one man put it in the NYT article linked above, "The episode “has tapped into one of Brazilians’ biggest pet peeves — gringos who treat their country like a third-rate spring break destination where you can lie to the cops and get away with it,” said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at Americas Society and Council of the Americas."
That's about the extent of the situation, with Lochte as the ringleader of the "gringos" who peed on Rio, used their women and then lied about it for their own selfish interests. Quite an example of American values they set.
Beau said:
Yeah, and the fact that US were allowed to run again after dropping baton kind of proved their "specialness".
