Doping #112 - Groot Russisch schandaal

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Op dinsdag 10 november 2015 22:22 schreef SaintOfKillers het volgende:

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Hoe een klein land toch groot kan zijn. Top 5 .

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Swimming has a global doping crisis on the same scale as athletics, leading coaches have warned.

'People saying this is not just Russia and not just athletics are 100 per cent correct,' John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, told Sportsmail.

The association are concerned about possible corruption in swimming's international governing body and have repeatedly raised their concerns with the World Anti-Doping Agency.

There are fears that the 'state-sponsored' doping in Russian athletics revealed this week may be echoed in swimming.

Russia currently has 27 swimmers serving doping bans and earlier this year came within one anti-doping violation of being temporarily suspended from competition.

There is evidence of young teenagers taking performance-enhancing drugs — with 14-year-old backstroke swimmer Daria Ustinova testing positive in 2012.

Leonard added: 'I am absolutely sure that the Russian swimmers were involved in this system as well as the track-and-field athletes. Russia are always great at the junior level and not as good at the senior level and nobody so far has offered an explanation as to why.

'It's obviously criminal because 14 year olds are not giving themselves drugs so someone is criminally affecting the health of children, as they did in the old East German days. Russia has been a greenhouse for this for many decades now.'

Leonard is concerned the sport's governing body, FINA, carry out drug testing, saying: 'You cannot have the organisations that are charged with promoting the sport also being the people who decide who gets tested and what they get tested for — which is just as important. That's the fox watching the hen house and it's completely unrealistic to have a clean sport when that's the case.

'We want to know who decides which swimmer gets tested for what banned substances. The fear is that is being done by professionals in the FINA office to cover for star swimmers.'

At the World and American swimming coaches conference in Ohio in September the full extent of the lack of confidence in anti-doping measures in the sport was laid bare.

Bill Sweetenham, the former British Swimming national performance director, said: 'I was on the stage in front of 700 of the world's best swimming coaches and I asked who felt any confidence in FINA and not one person stood up.

'They should be leading the charge and nobody trusts that they have the strength or commitment to clean up sport and in fact they think the coaches have the same lack of respect for WADA.

'It would be incorrect just to blame the Russians, I don't think they're any worse than some other countries.

'Unfortunately it's all leading to Rio being one of the dirtiest Olympics we've seen. It needs a massive broom to clean this one up so clean athletes aren't living with a cloud over their head and the dirty athletes and countries are removed.'

WADA and FINA could not be reached for comment.

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 09:35 schreef DeLuna het volgende:
'Unfortunately it's all leading to Rio being one of the dirtiest Olympics we've seen.

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'Unfortunately it's all leading to Rio being one of the dirtiest Olympics we've seen.

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Op dinsdag 10 november 2015 22:47 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:

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Dat komt enkel en alleen omdat in Vlaanderen er ook in de amateursporten serieus gecontroleerd wordt. En dat is in weinig landen het geval.

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 09:56 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
Zal Duitsland ooit nog iets van Sport uitzenden?

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 12:11 schreef TheRipper het volgende:
ex marathon loper Luc Krotwaar is niet verbaasd

Wij ook niet, zie hierboven.

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Krotwaar gelooft nog in 'freaks of nature'. Natuurtalenten, zoals Dafne Schippers.

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 12:13 schreef heywoodu het volgende:
Krotwaar gelooft nog in 'freaks of nature'. Natuurtalenten, zoals Dafne Schippers.

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A 17-year-old who claimed both girl’s breaststroke titles at the China Youth Games last month died yesterday morning after collapsing and being rushed to hospital from a dormitory on national-team camp in Beijing.

Qing Wenyi screamed out before collapsing at 4am, according to a roommate cited by Xinhua who rushed to her fellow swimmer’s aid only to find her unresponsive. Qing was taken to Tiantan Hospital near the Temple of Heaven but an hour-long struggle by doctors failed to resuscitate her.

The incident has prompted a wave of concern in the ranks of the Chinese swimming community, who are now calling on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to intervene. Sources who cannot be named, keen their fear of consequence for speaking out, have told SwimVortex that reports suggesting Qing’s parents immediately demanded that no autopsy was performed so that their daughter could rest in peace reflect coercion and control being exerted by those who would not wish the truth to emerge.

The news coincides with more speculation emerging from concerned members of the China swim community who believe two teenage boys coached in Tainjin by Zhou Ming, a chief architect of the China doping crisis of the 1990s, have tested positive for doping. A source says:

“The rumour was rife on the deck in Fuzhou … and coaches and swimmers were told by officials not to talk about things that were nothing to do with them.”

Zhou is the former national team coach with a large number of steroid positives among his personal charges and who in 1998 was banned for life according to the official pronouncements of the Chinese delegation sitting alongside FINA leaders at the Perth 1998 World Championships. The ban was later reduced to eight years, according to Chinese sources though no such thing was ever announced by FINA.

Sources tell SwimVortex that the rumour on the deck at the Games in Fuzhou two weeks ago was that both of Ming’s charges had tested positive for doping. Both boys, one of them said to be Wang Lizhou – the first Chinese swimmer inside the minute over 100m breaststroke with a 59.79 that can definitively be described as blistering for a 16-year-old – were on the original start sheet for the meet but had been removed when competition began. Ming was also said to have been ‘removed’ from the event.

There is no confirmation of any positive tests nor can Zhou and his swimmers be contacted. What is known is that the speculation surrounding them reflects mounting concern in Chinese swimming over the pressures being placed on coaches and young swimmers to land results at youth events where the size of financial rewards available come hand in hand with the dark influence of gamblers.

Sources have told SwimVortex that they have witnessed swimmers being removed from the call room before races because they might be a threat to the desired result. In the two examples cited at one event, one a solo race the other a relay, a whole quartet said to have been told to quit the race at the last moment, the withdrawals could be corroborated, both races going with seven lanes not eight. In another relay, in which there were plenty of teams to fill a final, only six teams raced in the final.

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 14:54 schreef DeeBee het volgende:
Wow, wat een naar verhaal.

Tieners icm doping is helemaal naar telkens... Ik bedoel, snap dat er gigantische concurrentie is, maar dat is vaak zo'n smerig systeem van staatsprogramma's, louche managers, sponsoren of whatever. Legt ziekelijke druk op die kinderen om te ontsnappen uit hun sociale situatie, waardoor doping nog aantrekkelijker wordt. Zelfde geldt voor grote groepen Kenianen natuurlijk bijv....

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 14:54 schreef DeeBee het volgende:
Wow, wat een naar verhaal.

Tieners icm doping is helemaal naar telkens... Ik bedoel, snap dat er gigantische concurrentie is, maar dat is vaak zo'n smerig systeem van staatsprogramma's, louche managers, sponsoren of whatever. Legt ziekelijke druk op die kinderen om te ontsnappen uit hun sociale situatie, waardoor doping nog aantrekkelijker wordt. Zelfde geldt voor grote groepen Kenianen natuurlijk bijv....

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 10:17 schreef fathank het volgende:

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Tot willekeurige controles in sportscholen aan toe

Sta je daar lekker op zaterdagochtend in de fitnesszaal, komt de DopingGestapo binnen om iedereen een plasje af te nemen

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Op woensdag 11 november 2015 22:55 schreef rubbereend het volgende:
Putin: "Dopingprobleem niet alleen in Rusland"

Putin weet

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'Illusie dat dopingschandaal alleen atletiek treft'

De voorbereiding van de schaatsers op de opening van het wereldbekerseizoen in Calgary wordt dezer dagen overschaduwd door de onthullingen over dopinggebruik in de Russische atletiek.

In een vernietigend rapport van dopingagentschap WADA wordt uitgebreid verslag gedaan over systematisch dopinggebruik onder Russische atleten.

Topschaatser Sven Kramer vreest dat alle recente onthullingen slechts het topje van de ijsberg zijn. "Het is een illusie dat dit alleen in de atletiekwereld speelt. Het is erg zorgwekkend en alarmerend, want dit had niemand voor mogelijk gehouden."

"Ik hoop dat zoiets groots niet in het schaatsen speelt, maar dit is breder dan de atletiek. Dit heeft zoveel impact op de sport. Het bederft niet mijn plezier, maar toch kun je je ogen er niet voor sluiten. Het moet grondig uitgezocht worden. De onderste steen moet boven."

Omdat de Nederlanders de schaatssport al jaren domineren, ook op olympisch niveau, worden er doorgaans vraagtekens gezet bij de prestaties van de vaderlandse schaatsers. Dat ondervond ook Kramer. "Na de afgelopen Spelen, toen wij 24 medailles wonnen, werd er ook over ons gesproken. Men let ook op mij. Ik heb nooit iets gebruikt, maar ik durf mijn hand niet voor iedereen in het vuur te steken."

Aankomend weekend behoort Pavel Koelizjnikov tot de favorieten voor de zege op de 500 meter. Legt Kramer bij eventueel succes van de Rus direct de link met de dopingpraktijken in het land van Koelizjnikov? "Dan denk ik: goed gedaan. Maar met een schuin oog kijk ik dan wel naar de verhalen van de afgelopen tijd."

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