Doping in sport: why it can't be stopped
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- Many sports' reputations are being tarnished by doping scandals. The International Olympic Committee and The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) should be responsible for tackling drug cheats-but are they at the heart of the problem? Read more here: econ.st/2Weuels
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It was one of sport’s darkest episodes. Following the Sochi Winter Olympics of 2014 Russia was proved to have carried out a vast state-sponsored doping operation. The scandal didn’t just expose an epidemic of foul play it called into question the credibility of a system that’s supposed to guard against doping and protect honest athletes.
So is there a lack of will to catch the cheats? Doping isn’t just a Russian problem it’s a global problem. In 2011 an anonymous survey asked more than 1,200 athletes whether they had used performance-enhancing drugs. The result, which was kept quiet for six years, was astonishing. 44% admitted to doping but typically only 1-2% of samples test positive.
Just like the Olympic motto athletes want to be “faster, higher, stronger”. Performance-enhancing drugs promise just that. But all drugs come with health risks and crucially, they tip the balance in competition. The sports governing bodies, especially the International Olympic Committee or the IOC say they want to stop the cheats.
Back in 1999 the IOC declared war on doping. It created the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. WADA was set up to be the anti-doping watchdog and to write the rulebook that would dictate best practice globally. But WADA’s independence is questionable. 50% of WADA’s funding comes from 190 governments and the other half comes from the IOC. And WADA’s average annual budget of $27m is less than 2% of the IOC’s revenue in an average year. WADA has around 120 employees. Only seven of them are tasked with conducting investigations into doping schemes worldwide.
With no power to enforce WADA relies on the national anti-doping agencies and sports federations to do drug testing. But different countries have different means, ability and yes, political will, to catch dopers.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were a huge success for the Russian team. Two years later and just weeks before the opening ceremony at Rio 2016 something happened that no one had anticipated. Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory turned whistleblower. His admissions captured in the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary “Icarus”, thrust Russia’s actions into the public consciousness like never before.
WADA had been investigating allegations of Russian doping since 2014. But it wasn’t until July 2016 that it published a report conducted by independent lawyer Richard McLaren. Russia tampered with urine samples of athletes in a thriller-like, cover-up operation. They even mixed in salt and coffee to contaminate doped samples. More than 1,000 Russian athletes were accused of doping. Russia was categorical in its denial.
WADA was determined that Russia should pay the full price. But the IOC rejected WADA’s recommendations. The IOC allowed individual athletes to appeal against the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or CAS. The result? Over two-thirds of the Russian team were allowed to participate. Two years later the IOC cleared 169 Russian athletes to take part in the Winter Olympics. But were those outcomes entirely due to concern about the rights of individual athletes? The answer may lie in a complex web of politics and power in sports.
Alexander Zhukov, Russia’s deputy prime minister doubled up as president of the Russian Olympic Committee. Pavel Kolobkov was deputy minister of sports and part of WADA. And then there’s Vitaly Mutko. He was sports minister during the Sochi scandal but he wasn’t sacked for this embarrassing episode. In fact he was promoted to deputy prime minister. But placing influential people in positions of power isn’t just a Russian affair. The IOC has two bodies that are predominantly dedicated to fighting doping. WADA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS. Like WADA, CAS was also established by the IOC. These two bodies are meant to be independent but an intricate network of rules and people has raised questions.
Despite its $5.7bn revenue per Olympic cycle the IOC is registered as a non-profit organisation and benefits from Switzerland’s lenient association laws which means it has a lot of leeway in how it runs itself and raises the question is anyone governing the governing bodies?
So can anyone hold the IOC to account?
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44% admitted to doping 56% admitted to lying..
As long as money is involved someone’s always gonna dope
And reputation
Not just money. Amature, unknown sport has dopers. It is the mindset of some people. External values attract an external locus of control.
Buuuut there is no doping in football!!!!
@@michaelniessner9489 leicester in 2016...
@@seanandsectiomuir3324 only because those ppl want to go pro to earn money :D
I wish they hadn't focused so much on the Russia allegations. The Kenyans have a similar state-sponsored doping program, and the United States also circumvents the rules in the form of corporate-sponsored doping, given how companies like Nike and the US athletics governing bodies are so intertwined.
Facts.
Absolutely!
o.......i dint know. where can i read more bout it?/
How can you say that like they definitely have a state sponsored doping program? Your just spouting nonsense out of nothing without any credibility. Of course there may be some, but saying stuff like 'state-sponsored' like Russia is bs without any concrete evidence.
And China as the Russia of Asia
"Everyone's on steroids"
~Nelson Mandela
The IOC is a joke and I don't understand how anyone can still take the Olympic Games seriously. It's a company driven by profit above all disguising as a sport organization.
exactly. someone who got it
same as FIFA
Goutham Absolutely
Well... it's a COMPANY that's running an event. They need to make money. So things will be ignored for money. Don't know why this is a shock since the athletes are their primary money making mechanic
If they made money outside of the athletes then they could be better at enforcement but they need that money
@@lazypunk794 what do you mean about fifa
sport has become part of the international battle to prove the dominance of a society = money and power. It is no longer sport, it is business and nationalism. Sport has lost the initial meaning = that which we do for pleasure.
been about power for thousands of years. Money more recently
Right said
It's been that way for 100's of years
Dude, sports is just another form of dominance. What fantasy you been believing..? The one they tell you? It's just a friendlier form of fighting for dominance over others.
Besides, the original Olympics were slaves and warriors (one step away from slaves) fighting to the death to entertain people lol
All about power. Never forget that. The world runs on it in its various forms and always will as long as humans exist
@@nicksteve5392 It doesn’t mean that the individual athletes do it because of that though, so it could be authentic because of that
They should have an olympics where doping is allowed so we can see these roided up athletes going wild
Agree would be awesome to watch it 🤣🤣
SNL did a skit on this
That would be the regular Olympics... Or why do you think they are the best? Because no other one would take them? I don't think so
Would be the exact same as it is now because everyone is on steroids😭
Noodle Chicken it’s already happening
What they point out is sad but so true. We dont catch that many cheaters while there are many of them, simply because we would discover that most of our heroes, the stars of the sport, role models... would for most of them be on drugs. Agencies, sponsors... don't want that. Revenues would drop drastically. It took years to finally see L. Armstrong be caught when everybody knew he was on drugs. It's pretty much the same for most athletes.
90% of elite athletes are using some kind of illegal substance.
When inhalers for athletes with asthma became a legally approved aid for athletes when training or racing, 50% of the Norwegian cross country ski team became asthmatic. So did Chris Froome of Tour de Fame fame. When testing improved in the 90s, all the new Chinese competitors with recent gold medals disappeared. Micro-dosing was developed and then new super humans emerged.
Since the development of amphetamines in the 30s to make German soldiers go days without sleep, doping has become a necessary tool to with a gold. Most countries protect their athletes including the U.S., from getting caught. And with some scientific research, there is a lot that can be used to improve performances that is not on the black list at IOC, but trying to catch even the biggest cheaters, is a race against time, and one that we most likely will not win.
I was born in the 1950s and raised to believe in the nobility of sports and the Olympic movement. I was taught that sport was an integral part of education and a means for a healthy life. As I've grown up I've become increasingly disappointed in the Olympic movement as it has become a circus managed by entertainers, which defeats the whole spirit that Pierre de Coubertin envisioned.
I think money is big contributor gor athletes taking that risk
@@gunner4life568 money is also the cause why officials turn a blind eye to what is obvious
In due time, the truth reveals
@@altacalifornio5375 sometimes tragically - Florence Griffith Joyner
Big 3 players in Tennis don't take steroids and PED drugs.
Messi and Christiano Ronaldo don't take steroids and PED.
Some athletes takes PED and steroids.
The background sounds are just mad 😂 😂
put in harsher and harsher penalties until it stops. its worked reasonably well in the ufc.
Don't believe it's stopped in the UFC. It is heavily reduced/changed though.
Crazy that a professionally-made video with professional research gets 750 views, whereas any cute cat video gets 10 million
The cute kitty has no reason of using propaganda. This one was slick and subtly done, well almost.
@@alaskangirl7475 "Everything that doesn't fit my worldview is propaganda"
not everybody cares about doping in sports
The Russians are deleting this channels views
this is just another western propaganda
Should've had Lance Armstrong in the thumbnail.
Most top athletes dope in every sport plain and simple
Ban the athlete, ban the coach and ban who ever tried to cover it up..., for life..., not just a few years.
The problem is it is so hard for you get caught if you know what you are doing
Everyone is on gear. It's all a smoke and mirrors. Too much money is at stake.
Many people don't realize this; they think all of their heroes are clean just because they say so.
Bang on.
Similar things can he said for politics, musicians, entertainers, influencers.
The following traits are not so conducive, to getting to the VERY top of a particular field:
Honest, having integrity, compassion for others, considerate of the next person, selfless.
The following traits make it a bit easier (althought it is still difficult to get to the top of anything):
Greed, manipulating others, unscrupulous, lacking integrity, dishonest, strive to beat others at all costs, prepared to put others down for selfish gain....
I mean, most people who have Olympians as their heroes, don't even know of the rampant debauchery that is so common at the Games/Olympic Village. And I mean RAMPANT. Google it if you didn't know.
If people take time to rationally and logically (without emotional bias) consider what it really took for XYZ person to get to the pinnacle of XYZ field, they may not make heroes out of public figures so easily...
The ones that got the medals through lifetime of hardwork are the true superhumans!💜
So all of them?
@@user-co1gi7yd2r the few that used drugs are a disgrace
@@waterproof4403 the few? I guess ignorance is bliss...
@@waterproof4403 what ?, even if ones use steroids, they still need dedicate their life time to train, steroids aren't Captain America super soldier serums.
@@glendjunuslodoli211 People have gotten way too comfortable with using steroids as a scapegoat. In reality, steroids only make you _look_ bigger.
As far as I know, the thing is you can ban some substances from the sport, but chemically you can change the components of it and when making the doping test it will not came up since it is a new substance with now different chemical components...
In that case, WADA would need to have the tools to prevent these new mixes from happening, but with what money?
Yes, you are right
No. On the test they can find whatever you take. It always leaves traces. Thats why they had to swap the tests in russia.
Not necessarily, when it comes to small molecule drugs they can stick it through HPLC-MS and identify strange compounds that wouldnt be there naturally; but when it comes to peptides that our bodies produce naturally like EPO you cant exactly identify exogenous vs endogenous EPO.
You can't ban a whole federation for doping even if its the majority doping. You can't punish individual good athletes.
Either allow it for anyone or punish them better - maybe by removing anything they achieved from history. Make them only have any loses they ever had and no wins so they go down as losers, ban them from any sport and remove any pay and medal that they have from sports.
Everybody's on steroids - Nate Diaz
World anti-doping agency President Witold Banka has warned that the coronavirus pandemic should not be used as an excuse for violating doping rules.
Banka underlined that the integrity of the world anti-doping system will be maintained and all cheaters will be caught.
The coronavirus outbreak has caused many countries to suspend their testing activities.
The WADA chief also noted that due to the postponing of the 2020 Tokyo games, those whose doping bans expire this year will be allowed to compete in the Olympics in 2021.
Doping to me is a global problem I personally believe that awareness and personal responsibility is key to stamp out vices ie doping match fixing in sports ie football rugby cricket etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
"Russian politics and sports are very often meshed." But the western world isn't?? France is like the king of involving politics in ANYTHING! Never mind just sports.
Trev K The city of Houston pro sports teams do this
Thank you for an interesting program on a topic relevant to all young top athletes who do choose to compete.
Hopefully the “spirit of sport” definition will be carried forward globally.
I think doping is just the logical step because we give too much importance to these games, if instead we give more importance and exposure for the scientific advance, social sciences... Etc will be doping our brains with more knowledge.
People have always cheated - as long as some of the cheats get found out there is hope for the clean athletes. However ultimately it comes down to the morals of the individual athletes.
It doesn't when your government is a dictatorship.
@@KasumiRINA If it's any guide, over 70% of all stripped Olympic medals are from post-Soviet and ex-Eastern Bloc countries. And if I looked through World Championships in Olympic sports, I would probably have a similar result.
Thanks 💐
Bruh for real you got me over here googling "can I go to the Olympics without doping?" And I'm a runner so in my mind 100% of track athletes are doping
depending on the country, you're not making the average Olympic team clean. Personally, some drugs that are classified as 'legal" are still performance enhancers thus should be prohibited.
No it can’t be stopped. And we should just stop holding the olympics all together
Or create a division for athletes using steroids.
@@adem_gun It's sad, but I agree with you that the Olympic movement has long lost the nobility that Pierre de Coubertin envisioned. As far as I'm concerned, the Olympic Games are just a circus managed by entertainers.
The developed countries have the most doping.
Most sophisticated too.
@@DBC00P3R Usain was on peds?
No the western countries have the Most doping
They are just much better organized and they have a lot more Money and power than poor countries
@@endloesung_der_braunen_frage most of the fastest men in history have tested positive at some point there is no way that Usain can just train harder or have amazing genes and be better than everyone else who’s on ped’s. He has both of those but that is nowhere near enough. Look at Jamaica’s drug testing and you’ll see why the best sprinters come from there
@@ryancrichton952 like Kenya
Nobody actually thinks that the best people in the world at any sport is actually clean. We know this. Sponsors know this. Broadcasters know this. We all know this. So why do we all pretend like they’re clean. Who are we protecting?
But Usain Bolt is clean , never failed any tests
@@Fernando-rj4yn Everyone other Jamaican who ran at the same time period as him has been caught for doping, how could it just be him that’s clean…
@@Fernando-rj4yn Lance Armstrong was tested thousands of times, and never failed any test either.
@@PepsiMagt dude had cancer and still won. That was way too suspicious.
@@therealist2000 no one has run his records.
To be fair, catching dopers in an age where some compounds leave the body in less than 24 hours would mean 24/7/365 monitoring. This is not only impossible but also unethical, and the slipperiest of slopes.
No, all you need is totally random monitoring without warning for athletes hoping to compete in the Olympics
@@christybyrne9844 the OP is actually correct because the dopers are way ahead of regulation and testing technology. Even if the come without warning, the compounds now can be undetected as the compounds are made to evade detection. Lance Armstrong was able to get away with this for years until he was ratted out.
@@jjh2456 yep I do agree with that
@@christybyrne9844 most sports have random testing however there are still loopholes… your suppose to tell them your location at all times and they can show up … however if your just not there while you would test positive , you get a missed test violation. Not a substance violation.
Lol visual checks work, and all I need is a hair sample and full blood work. Ultrasounds on repeated usual site injection areas also work as scar tissue and the oil/alcohol carrier fluid leave noticeable deviations on a scan
The city of Houston is happy about this
27 million dollars is very less for stoping world level doping.
Who will watch the watchmen…age old question
Their not going to do that because doping adds to competition and competition adds to entertainment
Do redrawing asia!
I want to see what it looks like
A wise man once told me, "If a human is involved there's corruption". LOL
And that's the reason I'll stick with snooker.
Haha! 😂
@@massivehero4871 are you serious 😮!
"...Thriller-like cover operation."
Kill the lights and cue the zombies!
Personal responsibility begins with myself as Steve Irungu Jermaine period by Steve Irungu Jermaine
The report is still not absolutely objektive, but I liked that they confirmed that it is NOT ONLY RUSSIAN PROBLEM.
How can a sponsor demand change in sport and doping? If one company doesn't want to sponsor an even, another will
I get that the focus of this video is on Olympic sports, but USADA are running the most successful and stringent anti doping programme around with the UFC.
While I know that is what should be happening, USADA is part of the problem. Watch Alex Gibney's video, The Armstrong Lie. It is quite enlightening just how much whistleblowing was ignored.
Never knew olympics was really just a drug feast
All sports
Athletics are a bit like Formula 1. It’s a mix of natural ability of the athletes to beat their competitors and their country’s doping technology to beat the tests. The IOC need to start offering a constructors championship to national Olympic committees that do the best job of not getting caught cheating lol
Personal responsibility begins with myself as Steve Irungu Jermaine by Steve Irungu Jermaine
I personal believe that awareness is key to stamp out vices eg match fixing doping etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Can we just have a separate bionic Olympics?
ZenBrane why it’s the same thing they all dope
@@IvanHernandez-os3yp because it contrast with everything that a true athlete should focus...
23 dislikes? Roid rage?!?!
There's somethig else you never hear about. Why not keep the samples for let's 15 years and test a bunch of them every few years ? Because most of them after a while would come back positive and it would show that sport at the highest level is a circus.
just have one competition where everyone can dope so we can see how far people can go in terms of performance
so the NFL
@Carlos Geli Not a bad idea. Just tell competitors that nobody will be tested at any time. Turnout might surprise everyone.
They can have the medals but not the honor, pride, and glory... if that still matters!
The ones that got the medals through lifetime of hardwork are the true superhumans!
keep in mind that the anonymous study of athletes was of athletes in the IAAF, so athletics. this is one of the sports where doping is the worst. not all sports are equal in this.
Completely correct: some sports have very little if any problem.
Of course, athletics isn't the worst sport - that dubious honor goes to weightlifting, which has had enough drug scandals over the years to put Hollywood and politicians to shame.
Look at Michael Phelps, when he competed against younger individuals who had everything he would beat them. Let’s not forget about his adderoll use. Top level athletes always have been taking stuff and always will!
Brave man
My country doesnt dope
F***ck off Dictator ⛔
Cause youre to poor for thats juicy juice
No...
I was watching some docs about Lance Armstrong, and he's the best liar I've ever seen
When adversary currently doing better than you, you must pickup something embarrassing about them to talk.
Doping to me is a global problem to me awareness and personal responsibility is key to stamp out vices is doping match fixing etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Well, the Brits gave a couple of extremely suspicious people in cycling knighthoods.
It's a common trait in people to win no matter what .... human nature and it will never change.
Allright we talk it over when Im sober
Wherever sports go then doping follows
Can anyone explain why they can't make doping legal ?
That would force all athletes to use it and thereby sacrificing their health even more than they already do.
they (sport orgs, sponsors, media) sell you a fantasy.
For me i just remember Ben Johnson being caught cheating in the Olympic 100 metre sprint. That was a big story at the time but how many others have got away with it? Quite a lot i think
I believe that awareness and personal responsibility begins with myself as Steve Irungu Jermaine. period by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Which companies make these dopes?
Came here for Callum Skinner!
Doping is a world wide phenomenon I believe that awareness is key to stamp out vices ie doping match fixing in sports eg cricket etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
If you can’t stop them from doing the thing, just let everyone do the thing. This way everything is fair.
Simple answer is No
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Can crime be stopped? Should we just give up and not have any police because crimes are continuity being commited?
Too long didn't read: doping isn't a crime that hurts tons of people. Doping shows up in other areas of life yet we are very sensitive to doping in sport. The issue may lie in the stated need to make sport clean. Who decided this? Why not let professionals dope? Drop all expectations. We wont feel lied to. The amateurs will continue to compete clean with eachother.
World Anti Doping Agency should work with International organizations ie FIFA IAAF IRB ITF ICC etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Turns out that the only fair, level playing field sport is Mr Olympia.
It’s a bit ironic to be talking about removing drugs from sports when the Olympic motto is literally “faster, HIGHER, stronger.” I think changing that would be a good first step.
Mew motto: Slower, lower, weaker.
People, it's a business. Athletes take the gear to get paid. If they don't, someone else will take their place. Watch cartoons if this bothers you.
We should just have a category called “doping category,” and let’s see what is the true limit of human achievement
Just make 2 olympics
I believe that awareness and personal responsibility is key to stamp out vices ie doping match fixing in sports etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Callum Skinner playing the honest athlete card - laughable. The guy had his TUEs exposed for the world to see by the Russian hackers. He's playing a very dangerous game he got away with doping and some mediocre success but by masquerading as an anti doping advocate all he is doing is risking being outed as part of the British cycling miracle of the last decade. Just idiotic.
Just allow the stuff. Everyone's on it.
If you do that, it won't be long before athlete's hearts start giving out mid game.
@@staidenofanarchy Regulate it
@@staidenofanarchy Or choose to not do it. Nobody would be forcing you
business people use coffee
Yes that is true but with sports it's competitive unlike a conference meeting or something
@@drmedicus5183 it's all a competition even this point I am making. Essential human dynamic that be
We should have a version of sports where athletes are allowed to take a sh*tload of doping drugs.
Like f**k bro, let's see how high a human being can actually jump.
Yeah it's called Crossfit
Thats the current version of sports
drugs are tools that's all nothing to get all moral about
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug
If u want a level playing field, then just let them do whatever they want, to get the best outcome 💪🏽
Regulate it.
which means, the richest would win, but only live maybe up to their mid 30's.
Agree I wanna see people break records fck anti doping just dope up all the athletes
The biggest doping scandal in sport is those women who benefit from 20 years of increased muscle mass and bone density from the testosterone produced in their balls, before getting them cut off in order to compete in women's sport.
It can't be stopped cause there is no shame in doping and the punishment isn't really harsh enough.
It should be openly allowed. Everyone is doing it , so only the richest succeed
Because we are lazily smart. If we can take shortcuts we will take them.
we act like we don't want it, if steroids wasn't around we wouldn't see records broken
I'm Jamaican 😬
Usain was on peds
VA Money Group You got no proof
for win.for extra energy.bcoz its how drug done work well done..b4 its okey.but in time its cheater
I believe that awareness is key to stamp out vices ie doping and match fixing in sports ie cricket by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Why is that guy alive??