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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Olympics 2020/2021 : Discussion & Predictions
by
TheNineClub
on 18/07/2021, 20:29:59 UTC
Not a Russian myself, nor do I care about any specific Russian athlete, but accusing Russia of systematic doping and not pointing a finger at other countries' systematic doping is just ridiculous. I guess the difference is state manipulated systematic doping versus the state knowing about doping and turning a blind eye. Honestly, it's equally bad.

The point is, these were caught... the others weren't.

Yes it is true that there is doping in other countries, but either it has not been detected yet or what has been caught are individual athletes, without government support or knowledge of the countries' federations.

In the case of Russia, the problem was discovering that the federations were involved in the problem. In other words, it was not the individual athletes but the institutions representing them that were involved.

yeah, you are right on that, it's just the fact that I mentioned, the institutions of other countries turning a blind eye on the athletes doping. It's just frustrating but as a wise man once said, it's not illegal to take drugs, it's illegal to get caught.