According to Tyler Hamilton’s book it takes like 2-3 days for your body to clear exogenous testosterone so you literally need to get caught in the act red-handed or be extremely unlucky during testing. He described evading authorities like a game of hide-and-seek where the rules heavily favor the hiders.
And then there are a lot of methods like blood doping which to this day is undetectable. With doping being so easy and it being pretty much impossible for a natural athlete to beat a doped-up athlete, the logical conclusion is that everyone at the top is doing it.
With the advent of blood passports (effectively your peraonal physiological baseline) it has become harder to work around the current testing protocols.
Meanwhile, the defending Olympic Gold Medal Women’s Soccer team is at risk of being disqualified because of allegations of drone spying on the NZ soccer team. Would serve them right on stupidity as well as cheating grounds.
Only controversy about the review was that it took so long.
Eventual call was correct. If anyone wants to know why: offside timing is not reset when a shot is saved by a defender.
Article is incorrect that the player was past the last defender. He was past the second-to-last defender.
I’ll watch to confirm…
OK, I’m back. Saw a still photo showing the player was in an offside position at the time the ball was touched by a teammate. So, that is that. Stop trying to cheat and be lazy to get goals. (The “trying” is going on now, with the eventual, “I hate VAR because it went against my team and I want my team to cheat in order to win.”)
Also, seems that since the match was suspended for unruly fans who had to be removed, no refereeing action could be performed. And I guess that includes the VAR? At least announce that the match had been suspended, especially to the crowd and to the media crews.
The replay I saw was pretty fast (wish I had my TiVo for frame-by-frame advancing). And NBC/USA was pretty fast on calling the final score a draw and moving on from it. Even they didn’t know what was going on.
First world record has fallen. In the ranking round (i.e., determining the seeds) of archery, Lim Sihyeon shot a 694 (out of 720). Previous women’s WR was 692, previous OR was 680. #2 seed, also from Korea, shot a 688, #3 seed was back at 673.
Opening ceremony is today at noon. Men’s gymanastics on NBC proper starts tomorrow morning just before 6 am (less elite countries start online a few hours earlier).
Are there any sports where the Olympics are actually important? Seems like most sports have their own world championships and independent leagues and the Olympics is just a sideshow.
Swimming has a world championship, the Olympics are more important.
Gymnastics has a world championship, the Olympics are more important.
Triathlon has a distance that is literally called Olympic by most people and is the main distance that professionals compete over. The Olympics are more important than worlds there.
Athletics has well established pro leagues in Europe, has world championships. The Olympics are more important.
Small boat sailing, weight lifting, … also fit the bill.
team is at risk of being disqualified because of allegations of drone spying on the NZ soccer team. Would serve them right on stupidity as well as cheating grounds.