Just found your channel a month ago and great content! Would like to know how do these athletes support themselves. Are members of a national team receive moneys from government? Keep up the good work. Best Regards.
Hey, I’m from Latvia! Andrejs is training hard right now, but almost every of our athlete is also under Latvian army (army is paying them monthly only about 1000€)
Biathlon is my favorite winter sport. I'm from Latvia and it's sad that Andrejs will miss Olympics. Almost everyone here thinks he missed tests accidentally even his team mates but I'm not 100% sure about that.
When an elite athlete is suspended for doping or missing drug tests..., are they still required to provide their whereabouts and be tested during their suspension? And I agree with your assessment of Rastorgujevs.
I agree with you. The case of Therese Johaug ( Cross Country) comes to my mind. Suspension: 4 years. She got better than ever. Maybe it's a chance for him, too.
He's getting up there in age though... he'll have to train and race for these months to stay sharp. Maybe he'll just do a season of Russian Cups or something but how is he going to fund that? he can barely get funding to race the IBU circuit
Thank you Brian. Good video. Honest and straight to the point. In regard to the WADA-imposed travel/location reporting requirements for top level athletes, it is my opinion that they would be negligible compared to the: daily, weekly, monthly and yearly government-imposed reporting requirements that commercial sponsors comply with in the course of their normal business activities. If you can manage a training regime, organise your travel, maintain a required competitive standard and liaise successfully with sponsors; how difficult is it to provide WADA with a monthly itinerary and prompt advice of amendments to said itinerary?
I wonder if there might have been some other reason other than negligence/forgetfulness on his part for them not knowing his whereabouts. I mean, previous years everything has obviously been fine, maybe some information wasn't relayed properly this time or something.
from his Facebook page: _"I admit I've made some human mistakes, even I'd say - technical mistakes. I want to assure everyone that I have not done anything forbidden."_ So it sounds like he is owning up to the mistakes he's made
No big deal about the pronunciation. I kidded about it in a Laegreid video. You are hardly the worst offender. There is a BBC lady who butchers so many track and field names in rotating fashion that it becomes a huge topic in the comments, including during today's season ending races from Kenya. Appreciate the content. Christian Coleman is a better example than Richardson. He was the gold medal favorite at 100m but missed Tokyo due to 3 whereabouts failures
Agree on Coleman however I felt the media attention towards the Richardson situation was more mainstream. Obviously a little different situation but the point I was trying to make with Andrejs would be the same point I would make in the Richardson case.
interesting explaining vid Brian hope you keep up the reactions when the season starts in November.
I hope to but people gotta subscribe :D
Just found your channel. Good job , I’m signed in 👍
Just found your channel a month ago and great content! Would like to know how do these athletes support themselves. Are members of a national team receive moneys from government? Keep up the good work. Best Regards.
I love this video idea. breakdown of athlete finances. Video coming sooner than later
Great idea for a video. I'd also like to see how different countries compare.
Hey, I’m from Latvia! Andrejs is training hard right now, but almost every of our athlete is also under Latvian army (army is paying them monthly only about 1000€)
Biathlon is my favorite winter sport. I'm from Latvia and it's sad that Andrejs will miss Olympics. Almost everyone here thinks he missed tests accidentally even his team mates but I'm not 100% sure about that.
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When an elite athlete is suspended for doping or missing drug tests..., are they still required to provide their whereabouts and be tested during their suspension? And I agree with your assessment of Rastorgujevs.
The coach or team doctor should be held accountable instead of the athletes who lack agency and power.
I agree with you. The case of Therese Johaug ( Cross Country) comes to my mind. Suspension: 4 years. She got better than ever. Maybe it's a chance for him, too.
He's getting up there in age though... he'll have to train and race for these months to stay sharp. Maybe he'll just do a season of Russian Cups or something but how is he going to fund that? he can barely get funding to race the IBU circuit
@@BrianHalligan-USA he’s training right now.
Thank you Brian. Good video. Honest and straight to the point.
In regard to the WADA-imposed travel/location reporting requirements for top level athletes, it is my opinion that they would be negligible compared to the:
daily, weekly, monthly and yearly government-imposed reporting requirements that commercial sponsors comply with in the course of their normal business activities.
If you can manage a training regime, organise your travel, maintain a required competitive standard and liaise successfully with sponsors; how difficult is it to provide WADA with a monthly itinerary and prompt advice of amendments to said itinerary?
I wonder if there might have been some other reason other than negligence/forgetfulness on his part for them not knowing his whereabouts. I mean, previous years everything has obviously been fine, maybe some information wasn't relayed properly this time or something.
from his Facebook page:
_"I admit I've made some human mistakes, even I'd say - technical mistakes. I want to assure everyone that I have not done anything forbidden."_
So it sounds like he is owning up to the mistakes he's made
No big deal about the pronunciation. I kidded about it in a Laegreid video. You are hardly the worst offender. There is a BBC lady who butchers so many track and field names in rotating fashion that it becomes a huge topic in the comments, including during today's season ending races from Kenya. Appreciate the content. Christian Coleman is a better example than Richardson. He was the gold medal favorite at 100m but missed Tokyo due to 3 whereabouts failures
Agree on Coleman however I felt the media attention towards the Richardson situation was more mainstream. Obviously a little different situation but the point I was trying to make with Andrejs would be the same point I would make in the Richardson case.
What trail is that? Prosser area?
Close, but no. It's my secret training location
Probably the end of his career
Might be... 33 years old... Will be 35 by the time the suspension is over.
@@BrianHalligan-USA remember Bjørndalen, he was 45 or so😏