The 2018 Olympics are now a fraud

International Olympic Committee [ The IOC] may have surprised the Russian team from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyongchang, North Korea, because of the benefits. But the decision ) that allows Russian athletes to compete under a “flung neutral” It's ridiculous, a punishment not to punish anyone in order to preserve his face while defending Russia's commercial and political interests.

I feel responsible to say this because I was part of the investigation on behalf of the Anti-Doping World Agency. [ WAA].

The 2016 report of the WAA investigation found that Russia had applied a state-sponsored doping programme to an unprecedented level since East Germany, and, in the process, deceived hundreds of clean athletes for their country's well-deserved Olympics and World Championship pedestal. However, Russia is already lobbiing to allow hundreds of athletes to compete in Pyoungchang, where they will compete as the “Olympic athletes from Russia” Who can hardly be viewed as a neutral appointment, says the IOC. They may also be allowed to go to the closing ceremony under the flag of Russia.

In 2016 the International Paralympic Committee [ IPC had no problem leaving Russian athletes out of the Rio Olympics. IPC President Philip Creven said Russia put the “s ahead of morale” and, in doing so, violated the Olympic Charter.

I admit that the exemption of all Russian athletes is a strong discipline, but the burden of punishment is also necessary. IOC's weak decisions before the Games in Rio, and even the latter, have not scared him, but have thrilled Russia to act deceitfully without the fear of any real repressal.

The only real value is toward those who have told the truth.

Initial findings for the Russian state-sponsored doping programme were the result of the courage of Yulija Stpanova and Vitaly Stepanov. This man [an ex-worker of the Russian antidoping agency] and woman [an elite athlete] have a self-refusionism. Because of their honest intentions, this couple were labeled traitors and had to leave their home because of fear of being killed.

They believed in a peaceful sport; That's what I believed when I began my investigation. As he grew up, I realized that he was bigger than I had ever suspected and that he would look for more resources. That's when I realized that it wasn't just the doping world, it was also the antidoping world.

My request for additional investigation was rejected by the head of the WAA CHAA is also a member of the Olympic committee board. So I decided to give the alert to a trusted German reporter who made it high profile documents. I was the first antidoping investigator in the world's antidoping entity and I was making my own self-organization.

I knew that public disgrace was the currency of the kingdom on the Olympic movement. As I had hoped, the documents had postponed W The ADA gave me resources to lead a high-level investigation.

The investigation backed the claims of Russian athletes and gave other Russian athletes further evidence that 99% of their national colleagues were doping. We found out that when a Russian athlete rose to the national level, he or she had no choice in the matter: either doping or being made a career. Athletes and trainers were linked to Russian doctors who defined doping regimes, and currently trafficked and sold controlled substances within the Russian Sports Ministry's buildings.

I spent most of my career as an agent at DEA investigating drug cartels, but these guys were also less shy. Any Russian doping control officials to secret cops helped ensure that the athletes would not fail the doping tests, and if they failed, this would be covered.

Despite all this, I am less disappointed with Russian athletes than with my colleagues, key figures in global antidoping, who had supported <x0-neutrality” of I.O. C's. I heard the decision called “a moral victory.” In my experience, a moral victory is only when someone loses. Let me be clear, there is nothing to be appreciated or defended in this decision, which harms pure athletes against doping ones.

Russian athletes must meet the strict “ ” to enter the Winter Olympics, which is simply the farce. Such is the recompense of those who are pure and pure. They compete with the unclean. People should see those hundreds of tests that resulted in clean dopings like Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones.

Again, The IOC will ensure that some Olympic champions will lose their medals from doping tests. Many years will pass before Olympic champions get to know each other and take their medals.

Even now, Russia remains co-operative. Information He has requested W The ADA has been turned upside down. Russian officials have pleaded not guilty, but they have scared witnesses and continued to do the shopping of athletes even during the investigation. There is no sign that the state-sponsored doping program has stopped. In fact, evidence clearly shows that he is continuing. And the International Olympic Committee knows that.

I am sorry for all of those Russian athletes who will face a forced doping because the Olympic committee decided not to protect them by failing to give Russia a deserved punishment.

Thomas Bach, the president of the committee, is Neville Chamberlain of this story, and his calmness will have clear and painful consequences. Russia will be braved, knowing that the worst punishment it can receive is not bad at all.

The IOC reached a compromise decision, and the Olympic Charter was permanently tarnished. The world already knows how low this is. Any future decision in the less powerful states will be seen as it will be -- a double standard -- with the IOC choosing what rules it will follow and to whom it will apply. The IOC should be reminded that the Olympics can survive without Russia, but not without Olympic ideals.

At the 2018 Games we will see if even more wrongdoing will be uncovered in Pyongchang. Spectators and athletes should consider that the final medal is counted in February only as a temporary medal, until they wait until the next decade to be disqualified retroactively as athletes.

Fortunately, the change it should not be complicated: a new proposal for the Olympic leadership that would decide the soul of the Charter first, and that would force member nations to adhere.

Sports allows a rare platform that allows people of all countries to engage in meaningful and ethical civic discussions. Goodness and righteousness is the essence of values within sports, and not just secondary concerns.

The International Olympic Committee must clear the house, and bring new leaders who not only understand principles but also live them.

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