Five batches of samples from the WADA database, released by Fancy Bear: 107 athletes from 23 countries in 29 sports
Between September 13th and 23rd, Fancy Bear released five batches of samples from the World Anti-Doping Agency database. The information on 107 athletes who tested positive for banned substances, was posted on the internet. However, for some reason, often medical, WADA allowed these athletes to take part in the competitions.
Most "sick" athletes are US or UK citizens - 23% and 22% correspondingly. They are followed by Canada (10%), Germany (8%), Australia (7%), Denmark (6%), Italy (5%) - 23 countries in total.
Twenty-nine sports are mentioned in the published data. The most often cited are swimming (19%), rowing (10%), track cycling (8%), field hockey (7%), tennis (6%), football (5%), athletics (5%) and mountain biking (4%).
It's important to note that most of all permitted uses of doping by the US national team was in swimming (12%) and tennis (12%), and it was the American team who led the medal count in these disciplines in the Rio Olympics.
The same is true of Great Britain: 26.09% of all infringements relate to track cycling, rowing 21.74%, field hockey - 13.04%. As a result, UK led the medal count in rowing and field hockey among women, and were fourth in road cycling.It's hard to say whether Fancy Bear is unbiased, or whether these batches are representative of the whole picture. At any rate, this information calls into question the independence of the World Anti-Doping Agency, showing the uselessness of the organization, at least in its present format.
Source: Silentio
Comment: Yesterday the hacker group Fancy Bears
released even more names of athletes who tested positive for banned substances by WADA but were permitted to participate in the Olympics because of the "therapeutic use" exemption. The athletes given an exemption are primarily from Western countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Venezuela, South Africa and of course the USA. Rio 2016 Gold medal rower Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand is among those listed as testing positive for banned substances. It should be fairly clear at this point that the banning of Russian athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics is a complete joke and had nothing to do with doping since everyone is doing it. The Russian ban was not about doping, but about the US propaganda effort to demonize Russia in any way possible.
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coverage about this in Western media. Zero follow-up on the cocktail of steroids Serena Williams has been on for years, zero follow-up on the cocktail of same given to US gymnast Simone Biles since she was 12, and the same for British long-distance runner Mo Farah. The only one to take a bit of flack, that I know of, is Sir Bradley Wiggins, Britain's 'greatest ever cyclist', who is having a somewhat more difficult time convincing folks that being injected with high doses of slow-release triamcinolone prior to the Tour de France is 'to treat hay fever'.
In a way though, I don't blame them for not wanting to touch this subject; the stench of hypocrisy is revolting.