On the note of state sponsored doping programs in the 21th century, a documentary aired on german television last night about (systematic) doping in Russia and cover ups (and I missed it/ only knew of it afterwards ). I wanted to mention something about it in the Lee Chong Wei discussion some weeks ago but now it turns out it was even worse than I thought/knew/suspected . As said I haven't watched it yet but it popped up in my twitter feed a transcript was posted here: http://velorooms.com/index.php?topic=798.msg179886#msg179886 Original title: "Geheimsache Doping - Wie Russland seine Sieger macht" http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Sport...Erste/Video?documentId=25114280&bcastId=53524 (not sure if viewable outside of Germany) Haven't read the transcript either so don't know if it's in the transcript but apparently a Russian marathon runner (female), 3 time winner of the Chicago marathon paid off the Russian doping agency $600,000 to escape a suspension but in the end failed to keep a clean "Biological Passport" and is set to get a two year ban after all and demanded here money back. So far two-thirds have been paid back and the remainder is suspected to have been used for bribes, etc. (internationally)
WADA to investigate allegations of Russian systematic doping after German TV documentary http://www.insidethegames.biz/sport...systematic-doping-after-german-tv-documentary
Just realized this should probably be in the chit-chat section ... (Title) Might sound misleading and linked to badminton over here
Now with english subs! [video=youtube;U1YlKaN3cPs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1YlKaN3cPs&list=PL02ItRSBfT17nbHws_Z484wmpx7w7zfuP[/video]