-Vintage Canuck- Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Quote The International Olympic Committee has suspended the Russian National Olympic Committee for the 2018 Games as a result of a doping scandal, but clean Russian athletes can compete under a neutral flag. Russia’s doping scandal began coming to light in December 2014, when an ARD documentary on German TV alleged that Russian officials systemically accepted payments from athletes to supply banned substances and cover up positive tests. In it, former discus thrower Yevgeniya Pecherina claimed that “most, the majority, 99 per cent” of top international level Russian athletes cheated. That prompted both the International Association of Athletics Federations and WADA to begin investigations, with former WADA president Dick Pound leading an independent commission that confirmed the ARD report in December 2015. “It’s worse than we thought,” Pound said at the time. Richard McLaren, another Canadian who was part of Pound’s team on the initial probe, was tasked the following May with leading an independent investigation into Russia’s actions after whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Moscow’s anti-doping lab who defected to the U.S. in 2015, detailed how the Sochi Games had been fixed to the New York Times. McLaren released an interim report in mid-July before the 2016 Rio Olympics corroborating Rodchenkov’s claims, but while the IAAF decided to ban Russian track and field athletes from those Games, the IOC did not. “Justice has to be independent of politics,” Bach said then. The full report in December included data from computer hard drives, databases and emails that supported witness testimony on how post-competition urine samples of Russian athletes were systemically swapped out of the Sochi lab through a hole in the wall, and replaced with clean samples stored in a nearby building occupied by the FSB. “It is impossible to know how deep and how far back this conspiracy goes,” McLaren said during the announcement. Russian government and sports officials have consistently denied the claims, but 25 Russians that competed in Sochi have since been punished retroactively for doping, costing the country 11 medals. http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/ioc-suspends-russian-national-olympic-committee-2018-games/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Surprised they did this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I am actually quite surprised by the wide reaching scope of the ban. I am not surprised at all by the doping itself as for years Russia, America, China and Germany have been the top tier for cheating regarding doping, training and age issues. With this in mind it is hard to not see Sweden and Finland the current favorites to the podium in hockey. The political fallout should be amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieBush Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 It just means Pettersson is going to have Olympic gold before he ever signs an NHL contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chon derry Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I wanted to see what ovechkin was going to do, challenge buttman or back down , neither. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalie13 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 4 minutes ago, chon derry said: I wanted to see what ovechkin was going to do, challenge buttman or back down , neither. That was never going to happen anyways. The IOC and IIHF had already said they won't be inviting any NHL contract players so there was nowhere for Ovechkin to go. I'm not totally surprised that the IOC went this way. It will be interesting to see how the KHL reacts though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, goalie13 said: That was never going to happen anyways. The IOC and IIHF had already said they won't be inviting any NHL contract players so there was nowhere for Ovechkin to go. I'm not totally surprised that the IOC went this way. It will be interesting to see how the KHL reacts though. Let's watch the Tryamkin thread and find out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergioMomesso Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Good for them. But the IOC are no saints themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Well, one Canuck has already reacted to this news: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCanuck Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 well these olympics are going to be mehtastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarcore Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 They rigged their hosted games. This is totally deserved imo. I can't believe the IoC had the testicular fortitude to do it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 46 minutes ago, SergioMomesso said: Good for them. But the IOC are no saints themselves. heh, they give FIFA a run for the money in terms of corruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 So Tryamkin has no olympic games incentive to keep him in the KHL? That's a plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 So.... probably no KHL in the Olympics either. Just gonna be the other Euro leagues, some college and a couple of junior players sprinkled in. Good thing I couldn't go to Pyeongchang this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckNORRIS4Cup Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Russia announces talented pre-tournament roster amid Olympic ban The Channel One Cup is meant to serve as an Olympic tuneup this year, and the host Russian squad is loading up with plenty of noteworthy talent. Here's a look at the roster, which features several former NHL players: Forwards: Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergei Kalinin, Nikita Gusev, Vadim Shipachyov, Ilya Kablukov, Evgeny Ketov, Sergei Plotnikov, Sergei Shirokov (all SKA Saint Petersburg), Kirill Kaprizov, Valery Nichushkin, Ivan Telegin, Sergei Andronov, Maxim Shalunov, Mikhail Grigorenko (all CSKA Moscow). Defensemen: Anton Belov, Slava Voynov, Vladislav Gavrikov, Dinar Khafizullin, Yegor Yakovlev (all SKA Saint Petersburg), Bogdan Kiselevich, Nikita Nesterov, Alexei Marchenko (all CSKA Moscow), Ilya Lyubushkin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl). Goalies: Vasily Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow), Igor Shestyorkin (SKA Saint Petersburg). Per the IOC, clean, individual, invited athletes will still be able to participate, "be it in individual or team competitions, under the name 'Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR)." They will play with a uniform bearing the OAR name and under the Olympic Flag, and the Olympic Anthem will be played in any ceremony. What this all means in regards to the composition of the men's hockey roster remains to be seen. https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1439503 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 59 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: Well, one Canuck has already reacted to this news: hard for me not to agree with him. The US probably just has better chemists and can stay farther ahead of testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 The world juniors is going to be so much more fun to watch than Olympic hockey this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 LOL - one corrupt entity vilifying another. Let the snapshow retaliation begin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Check out Icarus on Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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