Bolshunov is indeed a beautiful and powerful skier - and I enjoy watching him ski, particularly classic. But historians will recall that there is undeniable history of state-sponsored development concerning the use of performance enhancing drugs in the Soviet Union going back to 1960 when the Soviets hockey team beat the Americans amidst extremely suspicious circumstances. Now 64 years later we are still considering the athletes to be legitimate competitors? If you find this to be a stretch try watching Bryan Fogel’s film “Icarus”. Without the Russians competing since the invasion of Ukraine - it feels like we have gotten real skiing back again.
The 2018 Olympics where many Russian athletes were banned allegedly from the use of performance enhancing drugs was not a scientific decision but a political one made by a western dominated Int'l Olympic Committee based on testimony from a defecting Russian lab person. The Court of Arbitration overruled that decision on appeal but the Olympic Committee would not recognize it and banned those athletes that were caught in the plot. Bolshunov competed as there was no evidence he had used. The country that uses more performance enhancing drugs is Norway. Most of the men;s team use them and mask them as fighting their asthma
Bolshunov is indeed a beautiful and powerful skier - and I enjoy watching him ski, particularly classic. But historians will recall that there is undeniable history of state-sponsored development concerning the use of performance enhancing drugs in the Soviet Union going back to 1960 when the Soviets hockey team beat the Americans amidst extremely suspicious circumstances. Now 64 years later we are still considering the athletes to be legitimate competitors? If you find this to be a stretch try watching Bryan Fogel’s film “Icarus”. Without the Russians competing since the invasion of Ukraine - it feels like we have gotten real skiing back again.
Bolshunov is indeed a beautiful and powerful skier - and I enjoy watching him ski, particularly classic. But historians will recall that there is undeniable history of state-sponsored development concerning the use of performance enhancing drugs in the Soviet Union going back to 1960 when the Soviets hockey team beat the Americans amidst extremely suspicious circumstances. Now 64 years later we are still considering the athletes to be legitimate competitors? If you find this to be a stretch try watching Bryan Fogel’s film “Icarus”.
Without the Russians competing since the invasion of Ukraine - it feels like we have gotten real skiing back again.
The 2018 Olympics where many Russian athletes were banned allegedly from the use of performance enhancing drugs was not a scientific decision but a political one made by a western dominated Int'l Olympic Committee based on testimony from a defecting Russian lab person. The Court of Arbitration overruled that decision on appeal but the Olympic Committee would not recognize it and banned those athletes that were caught in the plot. Bolshunov competed as there was no evidence he had used. The country that uses more performance enhancing drugs is Norway. Most of the men;s team use them and mask them as fighting their asthma
Bolshunov is indeed a beautiful and powerful skier - and I enjoy watching him ski, particularly classic. But historians will recall that there is undeniable history of state-sponsored development concerning the use of performance enhancing drugs in the Soviet Union going back to 1960 when the Soviets hockey team beat the Americans amidst extremely suspicious circumstances. Now 64 years later we are still considering the athletes to be legitimate competitors? If you find this to be a stretch try watching Bryan Fogel’s film “Icarus”.
Without the Russians competing since the invasion of Ukraine - it feels like we have gotten real skiing back again.