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What we won’t miss: Sun Yang & an entourage that still has questions to answer over 2014 doping positive.
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Stepanovs: Russian whistleblowers likely have to wait for US asylum beyond 2030
The CEO of USADA urges the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to expedite Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov’s 2016 application for asylum in the US after WADA and the international Olympic sport failed to help the Russian couple.
Doping in China, doubt as an order and whataboutism: we have lost if we stop asking questions
About doping, doping reporting, the differences between Rogge and Bach … whether in journalism or in the investigative bodies with lots of money, the key question is always: you just have to want it. But anyone who defends CHINADA reports and doesn't ask any questions has lost.
Revolt of the Olympic working class
No Olympic athletes went on strike on the day that the staff at the sinfully expensive IOC hotel L'hôtel du Collectionneur went on strike, but swimming legends once again made it clear that their trust in the so-called fight against doping and the anti-doping system has been lost.
The IOC violates the Olympic charter and tells the FBI to fuck off
Live blog from the second day of the 142nd IOC Session, including the conditional awarding of the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics to the French Alps (no financial guarantees) and Salt Lake City (disturbing anti doping law).
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The first female IOC president will be Nawal El Moutawakel if ...
... she submits her candidature by Sunday. Go ahead and bet while the odds are still attractive. Could anybody beat the Moroccan? Nicole Hoevertsz? At least nobody would have to talk anymore about the non-transparent IOC rules and the strange opinions of a dubious IOC Ethics Commission.
The billion-euro project: the big lie about Berlin's suitability for the Olympics
Berlin wants to host the 2040 Olympics as the centre of a German bid. Politicians claim, the city has almost all the sports facilities. Yet the German NOC only lists 12 suitable locations in Berlin - and even that is an exaggeration. Roughly half of them are suitable for the Olympics.
Smile at your peril: North Korea assesses ideological weaknesses of Olympic athletes
DPRK athletes endure rigorous checks for potential contamination by foreign influences. The selfie of table tennis medalists from North Korea, South Korea and China was widely regarded as one of the top Olympic moments in Paris. In North Korea, it could lead to severe consequences for the athletes.
Seine-sational: the insanely arrogant lack of transparency of the Olympic UIPM and its 'internal investigations' into a possible corruption case
UIPM board member and treasurer John Helmick, son of former corrupt IOC member Robert Helmick, was sent home from Paris. The pentathlon official is alleged to have traded in accreditations on his own account. UIPM president Klaus Schormann refuses to answer specific questions about the case.