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So, you’ve mentioned possible issues with 2 sports .
it’s true that there were potential issues with Chinese swimming team and (very uncertain) controversy over 2 female boxers.

But there are 32 sports in the summer Olympics.

With over 4 billion people watching the Olympics I’m sure your lack of future patronage will be a severe blow.
 
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Peemacgee Peemacgee
So, you’ve mentioned possible issues with 2 sports .
it’s true that there were potential issues with Chinese swimming team and (very uncertain) controversy over 2 female boxers.

But there are 32 sports in the summer Olympics.

With over 4 billion people watching the Olympics I’m sure your lack of future patronage will be a severe blow.
Weightlifting, cycling, and T&F are also rife with PED's. It just gets swept under the rug.
 
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Weightlifting, cycling, and T&F are also rife with PED's. It just gets swept under the rug.

All sport has had its problems and I’d be surprised if some cheating scumbag doesn’t get outed at the Games but if you have actual credible proof of your blanket statement (not rumour or “everyone knows what goes on”) then please by all means share it.
 
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Peemacgee Peemacgee
All sport has had its problems and I’d be surprised if some cheating scumbag doesn’t get outed at the Games but if you have actual credible proof of your blanket statement (not rumour or “everyone knows what goes on”) then please by all means share it.
Noone is going to out someone else because they're all on it. Here's a quick article on the men's 100m sprinters from 2020 on who's all faced drug bans.

https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scen...ry-only-three-have-never-had-a-doping-charge/
 
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Noone is going to out someone else because they're all on it. Here's a quick article on the men's 100m sprinters from 2020 on who's all faced drug bans.

https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scen...ry-only-three-have-never-had-a-doping-charge/


I’m happy to accept that there may have been a problem with sprinters ( and still may be for all I know)

however, once again you tar everyone with the same brush with “they are all on it” even though the article notes there’s not the same problem with longer distance events.

So, no evidence of holistic doping in cycling, weightlifting and the other dozens of T&F events then?

There will be almost 11,000 athletes in the summer olympics, there’s going to be some bad eggs - please don’t paint them all with the one cynical brush.
 
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Wow, what an incredible 100-meter men's final.. The extraordinarily long delay actually enhanced the sense of occasion and drama; I don't know what caused it but, if that becomes the norm then, obviously the athletes will expect, it and that's fine with me.
I've never seen a 100m final that fast and that close ever!
I genuinely thought that Thompson was going to beat Lyle, I was also hoping for that result, but Thompson really started to struggle in the last 20-30, and that's where Lyle is at his strongest. Watching it live I literally couldn't tell who won, It was thrilling!
 
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When it comes to doping, I'll take the over. I know you have to have evidence if you you are going to accuse or convict someone and statments like that means you're grouping "good" people with" bad" people, but I blame them, too. Just like I blame the one's actually doping, the IOC, the various federations, organizations, corporations, etc. Enough of them know, or should know, and they do or say nothing. Probably because they know there might be a time in their life when they need to turn to doping to remain relevant and competitive.

That being said, although I don't follow the Olympics regularly or consider it must watch, there is still some great competition from time to to me.
 
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Women's Skeet was unbelievably close and it was decided by a bad call which was truly terrible.
No VAR! Its a joke in this day and age, imagine the men's 100-meter final without a photo to examine the finish, there's just no excuse for this.
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As a frenchman I'll be enclined to watch judo as we always win a lot of medals...but it's just to boring to me.

I enjoey watching sport i don"t usually watch : Weightlifting and most of all diving (chat about trampoline lol !)
Anyway there's not better way to take a good nap than an afternoon of sport after sport after sport ^^

Also a )big fan of track and field that I only watch during the olympic
 
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Refugee boxer Cindy Ngamba was just incredible, it was very moving
 
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When it comes to doping, I'll take the over. I know you have to have evidence if you you are going to accuse or convict someone and statments like that means you're grouping "good" people with" bad" people, but I blame them, too. Just like I blame the one's actually doping, the IOC, the various federations, organizations, corporations, etc. Enough of them know, or should know, and they do or say nothing. Probably because they know there might be a time in their life when they need to turn to doping to remain relevant and competitive.

That being said, although I don't follow the Olympics regularly or consider it must watch, there is still some great competition from time to to me.

This is an incredibly cynical view. You blame clean athletes for the ones that are doping? Seriously?
 
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This is an incredibly cynical view. You blame clean athletes for the ones that are doping? Seriously?

I think in any large group, any collection of people who are trying to accomplish the same thing or working together for a common goal, know who the bad actors are. If they don't call them out, they are culpable, as well. Even if they can't be sure, if they suspect anything, they should be able to question these bad actors and then these committees, organizations, federations, etc. should take the suspicions seriously, treat everyone the same and get to the bottom of it. If there's evidence against them, kick 'em the hell out forever. If anybody was serious about stopping doping, that's how it'd be handled, but no one really, deep down, cares.
 
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If anybody was serious about stopping doping, that's how it'd be handled, but no one really, deep down, cares.
This is the real problem. No one wants to see the 100m final where the guys are only running 10.1 ir 10.0 or see Lasha snatching 180kg and C&J 220. Instead we get 9.7's and Lasha doing 220/250 on his lifts.

One of the weightlifting Youtube channels basically said "if there was no doping would anyone care to see the B session athletes?" That's essentially what you'd be getting for medalists.
 
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Well Olympic boxing has some crazy things going on. Might be gone next olympics.
I was thinking you meant some very poor judging in some places - if so, agreed (but it was ever thus), and some lop-sided brackets too. It would be a sad day if boxing gets dropped, but the absurd and unhelpful global governance of the sport has a lot to answer for.
 
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I think in any large group, any collection of people who are trying to accomplish the same thing or working together for a common goal, know who the bad actors are. If they don't call them out, they are culpable, as well. Even if they can't be sure, if they suspect anything, they should be able to question these bad actors and then these committees, organizations, federations, etc. should take the suspicions seriously, treat everyone the same and get to the bottom of it. If there's evidence against them, kick 'em the hell out forever. If anybody was serious about stopping doping, that's how it'd be handled, but no one really, deep down, cares.

I don’t mean to be harsh, but this is not even close to reality, and quite honestly it’s pretty offensive to anyone who has competed cleanly.

I can assure you as a clean athlete I cared deeply about the risks of others cheating, and when people were caught, no one but those who were doing it or were involved in facilitating it it knew. Your assertion that there is this large group of people who are not doping but all know what’s going on and are ignoring it makes zero sense. If I knew the guy I was shooting against for a spot at the Olympics was cheating, you bet your ass I’d do something about it.

If I wasn’t sure, do you really think I’m going to make some accusation that I have no proof of? Do you even begin to understand the implications of doing so?

People just love grand conspiracies, but the reality is that most of this behaviour is on an individual athlete and coach level. There are of course exceptions, such as the Russians and Chinese, but those are exceptions. To paint all with such a broad brush is just...well not very well thought out. I’ll leave it at that...
 
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I think in any large group, any collection of people who are trying to accomplish the same thing or working together for a common goal, know who the bad actors are. If they don't call them out, they are culpable, as well. Even if they can't be sure, if they suspect anything, they should be able to question these bad actors and then these committees, organizations, federations, etc. should take the suspicions seriously, treat everyone the same and get to the bottom of it. If there's evidence against them, kick 'em the hell out forever. If anybody was serious about stopping doping, that's how it'd be handled, but no one really, deep down, cares.

Most Olympians working closely together are usually within the same discipline, even if they're competing for the same country, they are most often competing against each other.

I think being culpable if you don't call someone out is extremely harsh, it's not, nor should it be an athlete's responsibility to do this, I think it's unfair to expect them to grass on their fellow competitors if they suspect something, and the pressure and weight and ramifications of doing something like that could massively impact that athlete's performance and potentially even ruin their career.

I strongly believe in giving people a second chance; a ban is an extremely strong and publicly shaming damaging sentence and message;
also, there can actually be mitigating circumstances, and indeed flawed tests; by kicking them out forever you could literally be ruining someone's life for something they haven't knowingly done.
 
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Another great triathlon - this time the mixed relay.
Very unfortunate bike crash for the favourites France but to have a photo finish after a race like that was a great spectacle.
congrats to Germany.

and once again I have to mention the crowds - absolutely brilliant.
 
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Lyle wore a DSOTM in the men’s 100 final…

The Omega marketing team was obviously thinking a little laterally about what a ‘Speedmaster’ can be when they signed him as a brand ambassador.
 
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Good picture !
I thought it was a Speedy i saw him wearing yesterday but didnt get a look as good at it as this one. He can even knock a few 100rds off his time if he dropped the watch and necklace so to keep wearing them must be worth a pretty penny. Well done Omega !
 
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