Russia loses appeal against Paralympics ban

@Burning Bush:

I couldn't agree more.

Don't fret Russia, the whole thing's a bust anyway - you're better off out of it.

@dharmadan:

It's not about nations, it's about individual athletes who have kept within the rules and trained hard and long for their one chance to compete against the best in the world.

The verdict is a complete sham. Despite more than a hundred Russian Athletes not taking part in Rio the country still did remarkably well.

Unfortunate for the clean Paralympians (who don't benefit as much from PEDs since their sports don't garner as much attention and sponsor money), but this is what happens when it's the national testing system that's caught cheating.

As the IOC even states, usually the burden of proof falls on the national testing system to prove which athletes are caught cheating, but when the national testing system is itself the one cheating, the burden of proof switches to the athletes to prove that they are clean.

drlucifer

The verdict is a complete sham

Spot on. Even IOC chief Bach admitted that this "investigator" McLaren did not provide him with concrete proof of state-sponsored doping in the Russian team. A lot of media noise accompanying carefully fabricated data, and no solid facts. Exactly like Colin Powell speech in the UN on Iraqi WMD, the same modus operandi. McLaren is a sham artist, and Craven is a complete disgrace.

Most Russian Paralympic athletes are clean? So some are not? Russia, and China as well, if they are caught in something unsavory, they always lash out. It’s politically motivated or a western conspiracy, it’s never their own fault. Well, I got news for you, they did it to themselves. No western country told them to cheat. WADA gave countries the responsibility and freedom to handle anti-doping themselves, but that was like putting the fox in the hen house. The Russian anti-doping agency, whose job it was to root out doping, actually encouraged athletes to dope. With the help from Putin and his secret service no less. You won’t see Obama telling the CIA to fiddle with urine samples. Maybe not every athlete succumbed to doping for the “glory of the country”, but this doping scam must have been an open secret among Russian athletes, however, nobody but one rang any alarm bells. And the one who did fled the country. And now the Russian authorities are going to investigate what exactly went on. What a joke, like they don’t know already. They are still catching Russian athletes who tested clean in London, but are now being caught with the help of more advanced techniques. Considering their history of state sponsored cheating, they should have been kicked out of major sport events years ago.