Just watched Icarus. Not a big fan of this "Russia" fellow.
Just watched Icarus. Not a big fan of this "Russia" fellow.
I have no choice but to abandon gummunibm and reassert myself as a Marxist-Leninist-Bidenist.
No but seriously, it seems like Russia sucks. Thoughts? Does this inform your perspective on Ukraine at all? Does this speak to the biases of the film maker? Are you like "fuck the Olympics anyway"? In essence: you seein this shit?
There's this documentary that follows a guy who intends to take steroids for his amateur biking competition. He wants to show how easy it would be to test negative while taking PEDs. He needs to find someone who will test his urine and he gets in contact of Russia's anti-doping program director right before their whole program exposes its dope-injected ass in front of the world.
It paints Russia as this very negative, lying, corrupt place with this profoundly illegal and deeply ingrained PED abuse scandal.
Why would some sports scandal have any impact on your perspective in regards to an international armed conflict?
I haven't watched said documentary but do keep in mind what the critical in "critical support" means
I don't understand how this is any different than what is done with PEDs in the US, where our professional athletes just blatantly cycle through different types of PEDs depending on what is or is not being tested for, they just do it under their teams supervision as to make sure to not run foul of the regulators. Literally the entire upper echelon of the professional biking world (including the entire US Postal service team) was shown to be doping little more than a decade ago, a better question is why should Russia even care other than to just do the bare minimum to pay lip service to western standards of 'fair-play'?
Is it just because it is unsophisticated that it bugs you?
It opened a lot of eyes as to how deep doping goes but people need to realise the problem goes beyond "gommunist state sponsored doping". Every year there are new ways to evade detection and testing committees have been doing random visits as well. For example once USADA went into mma the performances seriously dropped. The training elite athletes do is insane.