The US has been waging a completely spurious ‘anti-doping’ smear campaign against China. To the degree that Chinese athletes have been test more than twice as often as other countries and thr anti-doping organizations are now going to the press saying that the US is risking discrediting testing because naturally the Yanks have decided that they must be Chinese stooges if athletes keep passing.
Is this veering into a place that could get ableist? Yeah, kinda, but I trust we’re all smart enough not to draw the conclusion that “people with medical conditions shouldn’t be allowed to practice professional sports.”
What we should be concluding is that there is a large grey zone for what constitutes “doping” a grey zone which has been created on purpose in order to make it possible for the US to give itself an advantage whilst still being able to slander others. You need an exception for “legal” drugs, and 63% of those exceptions were given to the US, Australia and France
Neat! I wonder why
You’re welcome. It’s very telling that WADA does not have a readily available statistic over how many athletes have received these exceptions per country. WADA also doesn’t give a comparison of prize winners to exception holders (“of the 100 winners x% had one or more medical exceptions”). The rules also vary some places your national org grants the exception, some places it’s an international org. Most of the date is only available due to Russian hackers. I’m trying to find more info at the moment and my best piece of info is a twitter thread with no links lmao. That thread claims that China only got a few % percent of its TUE applications granted.
If I can find the actual leaks themselves I might make an effort post about it.
The US has been waging a completely spurious ‘anti-doping’ smear campaign against China. To the degree that Chinese athletes have been test more than twice as often as other countries and thr anti-doping organizations are now going to the press saying that the US is risking discrediting testing because naturally the Yanks have decided that they must be Chinese stooges if athletes keep passing.
The entire Olympics are full of examples of whites being racist against Chinese athletes lol.
That smear campaign makes me so annoyed because the US tests less and is still more likely to be caught doping
That’s not getting into how US athletes use medicine as a form of legalized cheating.
Asthma medicine is a big favourite, which significantly improves performance (you might be thinking “of course it does, it’s asthma medicine!” But it does it to an outsized extent and it is pretty suspicious that a larger amount of US elite athletes have asthma as compared to the rest of the population).
Is this veering into a place that could get ableist? Yeah, kinda, but I trust we’re all smart enough not to draw the conclusion that “people with medical conditions shouldn’t be allowed to practice professional sports.”
What we should be concluding is that there is a large grey zone for what constitutes “doping” a grey zone which has been created on purpose in order to make it possible for the US to give itself an advantage whilst still being able to slander others. You need an exception for “legal” drugs, and 63% of those exceptions were given to the US, Australia and France
Neat! I wonder why
But Egon, I hear you say, the US doesn’t hold any influence over WADA just because it supplies 15% of their funding! And even if it did, it wouldn’t use it! You imperialist dog! Of course they would use it, they do use it all the time!
Exactly. And thanks for the links on the use of legal medicine too. Some of those were new to me.
Found three more sources for you
I’ll give them a proper read when I’m not at work.
You’re welcome. It’s very telling that WADA does not have a readily available statistic over how many athletes have received these exceptions per country. WADA also doesn’t give a comparison of prize winners to exception holders (“of the 100 winners x% had one or more medical exceptions”). The rules also vary some places your national org grants the exception, some places it’s an international org. Most of the date is only available due to Russian hackers. I’m trying to find more info at the moment and my best piece of info is a twitter thread with no links lmao. That thread claims that China only got a few % percent of its TUE applications granted.
If I can find the actual leaks themselves I might make an effort post about it.
That’d be interesting if you do. I’d enjoy reading it.