The US has been waging a completely spurious ‘anti-doping’ smear campaign against China. To the degree that Chinese athletes have been test more than twice as often as other countries and thr anti-doping organizations are now going to the press saying that the US is risking discrediting testing because naturally the Yanks have decided that they must be Chinese stooges if athletes keep passing.
The entire Olympics are full of examples of whites being racist against Chinese athletes lol.
That smear campaign makes me so annoyed because the US tests less and is still more likely to be caught doping
That’s not getting into how US athletes use medicine as a form of legalized cheating.
Asthma medicine is a big favourite, which significantly improves performance (you might be thinking “of course it does, it’s asthma medicine!” But it does it to an outsized extent and it is pretty suspicious that a larger amount of US elite athletes have asthma as compared to the rest of the population).Is this veering into a place that could get ableist? Yeah, kinda, but I trust we’re all smart enough not to draw the conclusion that “people with medical conditions shouldn’t be allowed to practice professional sports.”
What we should be concluding is that there is a large grey zone for what constitutes “doping” a grey zone which has been created on purpose in order to make it possible for the US to give itself an advantage whilst still being able to slander others. You need an exception for “legal” drugs, and 63% of those exceptions were given to the US, Australia and France
Neat! I wonder whyBut Egon, I hear you say, the US doesn’t hold any influence over WADA just because it supplies 15% of their funding! And even if it did, it wouldn’t use it! You imperialist dog! Of course they would use it, they do use it all the time!
Exactly. And thanks for the links on the use of legal medicine too. Some of those were new to me.
Found three more sources for you
- Website dedicated to the leaks https://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/tag/fancy-bears/
- NYT article discussing the leak https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/sports/doping-olympics-russia-hacking-williams-biles.html?referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
- Seattle times article discussing exceptions for the RIO games https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/under-3-percent-of-us-athletes-in-rio-had-medical-exemptions/
I’ll give them a proper read when I’m not at work.
You’re welcome. It’s very telling that WADA does not have a readily available statistic over how many athletes have received these exceptions per country. WADA also doesn’t give a comparison of prize winners to exception holders (“of the 100 winners x% had one or more medical exceptions”). The rules also vary some places your national org grants the exception, some places it’s an international org. Most of the date is only available due to Russian hackers. I’m trying to find more info at the moment and my best piece of info is a twitter thread with no links lmao. That thread claims that China only got a few % percent of its TUE applications granted.
If I can find the actual leaks themselves I might make an effort post about it.That’d be interesting if you do. I’d enjoy reading it.
USA 🇺🇸 population: approximately 333 MILLION
CHINA 🇨🇳 population: approximately 1.425 BILLION
China has over 4 times the raw talent pool to draw from
Poorer people also have more opportunities in China to get into sports with state support from childhood
So the “cost” is having a society where the poor are given opportunities? Well fuck that then
The U.S. has 34 times the raw talent pool as Cuba but only 12 times as many medals. So Cuba is 3 times as good at sports as USA.
True, unless you think chinese people are racially inferior, like NYT does
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IF YER NOT FIRST YER LAST 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
*China tries to get as many golds as possible *
Wow ok toxic much? It’s just a game sheesh
geopolitical enemy is once again hatching a nefarious scheme to win medals at the olympics, remember dear reader, democracy is on the line
At least they answer the “at what cost?” question in the headline. That’s progress
What fucking cost?
they answered it right there, any
Oh duh, my bad. Thanks!
this is clearly not true, they have not yet
Shaolin Soccer was a documentary, the evil doped up super soccer team is very real and CHYNA is creating super soldiers!
Wait, what of Team Shaolin, are they on the West or East’s side?
OBVIOUSLY they fight for the CCP since Shaolin is in mainland CHYNA
Ummm actually, Hong Kong is yet to dissolved into CCP, sweaty
I’m pretty sure they were explicitly the USA. At least my brain remembers that.
I thought that Team Evil doped on American drugs, not Team Shaolin?
At any cost? What are the costs? Training hard?
“The duplicitious East Chinesians of the Far Orient are clearly up to something with the way they win a sports competition between countries to see who is the best at sports”
Say the line,
BartNYT!They said this exact same thing decades ago already when USSR was owning them too.
Ussr got 300+ gold medals in 9 Olympics, they are still the second country with the most gold medals. They owned everyone so hard the only country who has more medals participated in more than 3 times the number of different editions. And the US does not have 3 times the number of medals
Holy shit that’s actually fucking crazy
And of course internet is cleansed of that, i looked for some pictures of Soviet teams and i only found a few plus infinite amount of articles how they “cheated” and insane hypercope about Moscow olympics.
You never know what China will do next. Maybe they copy Algeria and send a woman who is really strong to the women’s boxing events. Their malevolent, cunning ways know no decency.