The Official 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Thread (from July 26 - August 11) - Closing Ceremony replay at 7pm EST

[MikelArteta]

Ik @MikelArteta hot the American edged out a Jamaican again

if it ain't gold who cares
even world athletics only gold medallists are getting bread

 

[King Static X]

Finally Grant Holloway got gold!

 

[KillerPups]

The debauchery that I would have engaged in that olympic village. I'm 100% sure they would have sent the Interpol in there to come get me

what a fukking buffet man

They said they gave out 300k rubbers...

Nothing but young attractive in shape winners all in one place for 2 weeks ..... Bruhhhh

 

[Germms]

Team USA needs to attack the paint.

 

[Damnshow]

USA the only country with at least 100 medals

We at 101 right now

No country ever won 100+ medals?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Alright I gotta tune in 100% on Team USA now... can't believe this shyt, Kerr sucks

 

[aceboon]

Quincy Hall don't know where to look for this interview with Tirico, dude all over the place

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They said they gave out 300k rubbers...

Nothing but young attractive in shape winners all in one place for 2 weeks ..... Bruhhhh

Only issue is now a lot of the most popular athletes don't stay in the village.

 

[BlackMajik]

No country ever won 100+ medals?

I just googled it and found this

The USA won a record 239 medals at the third Olympic Games, held in St Louis, Missouri, USA, in 1904

 

[Peak]

They said they gave out 300k rubbers...

Nothing but young attractive in shape winners all in one place for 2 weeks ..... Bruhhhh

To be an Olympian

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

USA the only country with at least 100 medals

We at 101 right now

Possibility of 1 or a few might be coming off. Taking it back to 1988-2000 era

WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in...

www.wada-ama.org

WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code

An athlete is running on the running track.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Code and USADA’s own rules.

This USADA scheme threatened the integrity of sporting competition, which the Code seeks to protect. By operating it, USADA was in clear breach of the rules. Contrary to the claims made by USADA, WADA did not sign off on this practice of permitting drug cheats to compete for years on the promise that they would try to obtain incriminating evidence against others.

Within the Code there is a provision whereby an athlete who provides substantial assistance can subsequently apply to have a proportion of their period of ineligibility suspended. However, there is a clear process for that, which does not involve allowing those who have cheated to continue to compete while they may or may not gather incriminating evidence against others and while they could retain a performance-enhancement effect from the substances they took. When WADA eventually found out about this non-compliant practice in 2021, many years after it had started, it immediately instructed USADA to desist.

WADA is now aware of at least three cases where athletes who had committed serious anti-doping rule violations were allowed to continue to compete for years while they acted as undercover agents for USADA, without it notifying WADA and without there being any provision allowing such a practice under the Code or USADA’s own rules.

In one case, an elite level athlete, who competed at Olympic qualifier and international events in the United States, admitted to taking steroids and EPO yet was permitted to continue competing all the way up to retirement. Their case was never published, results never disqualified, prize money never returned, and no suspension ever served. The athlete was allowed to line up against their unknowing competitors as if they had never cheated. In that case, when USADA eventually admitted to WADA what had been going on, it advised that any publication of consequences or disqualification of results would put the athlete’s security at risk and asked WADA to agree to non-publication. Being put in this impossible position, WADA had no choice but to agree (after verifying with its Intelligence and Investigations Department that the security threat was credible). The athlete’s doping was therefore never made public.

In another case of a high-level athlete, USADA never notified WADA of its decision to lift an athlete’s provisional suspension, which is an appealable decision, despite being required to do so under the Code. Had WADA been notified, it would never have allowed this.

How must other athletes feel knowing they were competing in good faith against those who were known by USADA to have cheated? It is ironic and hypocritical that USADA cries foul when it suspects other Anti-Doping Organizations are not following the rules to the letter while it did not announce doping cases for years and allowed cheats to carry on competing, on the off chance they might help them catch other possible violators. WADA wonders if the USADA Board of Directors, which governs USADA, or U.S. Congress, which funds it, knew about this non-compliant practice that not only undermined the integrity of sporting competition but also put the co-operating athletes’ security at risk.

 

[mozichrome]

 

[MikelArteta]

Finally Grant Holloway got gold!

and 50k from shay and chad

 

[Megadeus]

Only issue is now a lot of the most popular athletes don't stay in the village.

Who cares if theyre popular or not?

they still fine as hell

 

[MikelArteta]

Possibility of 1 or a few might be coming off. Taking back to 1988-2000 era

WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in...

www.wada-ama.org

well well well