@Clever Jake: Codswallop yourself, of course you brought politics and Putin into it . This is about politics of course, the montrous Putin who wont surrender the sovereignty of his country to the hedgemoney of Washington.

@John003: Agreed, any doped up athlete beaten into fourth place by other doped up athletes deserves a medal.

If you want to think you’re hip by using words like hegemony, at least learn how to spell them.

@Bairéid Rísteard: You haven’t watched Rocky 4 then.

@Bairéid Rísteard: yeah was there twice over the past few years nice place to visit and great people and surprisingly they don’t all hate the “west”. just stupid americans mostly but sure who doesn’t. lol

@Bairéid Rísteard: a lot of their athletes are very positive

@Honeybadger197: Rocky looked like he was doped.

@Bairéid Rísteard: Russian troll outed.

@Bairéid Rísteard: Check out the documentary ‘Icarus’ on Netflix. The level that the Russian government went to to assist doping for the Sochi olympics defies belief.

@David Cullen: “Stupid Americans” and the Russians are “great people”!!! LOL! Oh you’re SO ‘right-on’. SO ultra-cool! Stupid di@k.

@David Cullen: I’ve met too many Russians in Vietnam & Thailand and they are anything but ‘great people’.Drunken,arrogant,ignorant & rude are words that spring to mind.BTW- why do idiots like you think it’s ‘cool’ to hate America? Have you a village idiot mentality? I don’t believe you’ve ever been outside your parish let alone bloody Russia.

@Kieran Conroy: Go to your safe space, you’re making a fool out of yourself.

@Fake Avast: Yep.And Vietnam,Indonesia,Malaysia,Hong Kong,the list goes on and on.Only one parochial culchie round here & it ain’t me! Now off to bed with ya-cows to be milked in the morning.

@Justin Barrett: My ‘safe space’is the whole planet.That’s why I travel it.

@Fake Avast: Why do you live in Ireland? You are not Irish.If you don’t like it,leave.Bye!

@johnp: and what will wada do with it? Use it to wrap their chips or shove it down a hole in the floorboards?

@Cian Rynne: With Russia it’s state sponsored. There’s a difference.

@Cian Rynne:
You dont seem to want to follow facts at all and just straight for the “wwhhatt about them!!”

@Stephen Coveney: plenty of British and American coaches and athletes implicated in doping.
Just that the media has a very strong anti Russian bias, easier to hear about the big bad Russians than it is to hear about nations closer to home

@Cian Rynne: Please, say its not so. I want them all to be sqeaky clean like my hero’s Alberto Salazar and Mo Farah. Well ok, but the Russians spiked their drinks you’ ll find.

@Snotser Galligan: what are you slobbering about?

you don’t think innocent athletes should be allowed compete?

@gjpb:
They can. Just dont use the russian doping agency as proof that they are clean. Lets just hope the russian authorities grow up a bit and allow their countrymen to get tested somewhere else and compete.

@Stephen Coveney: yip, that’s what happened with this years world athletics championships.

@Stephen Coveney: ha ha hilarious. The vast majority that you can’t name were clean perhaps. If you can remember their names then they probably won something and were pretty much guaranteed to be doped. Do you know I heard that in the LA Olympics they introduced new equipment that could detect minute quantities of drugs for the first time. They had so many positive tests they were in a serious dilemma so eventually they just shelved all the results as to do otherwise would have shut the Olympics down. Now that’s what you call Integrity folks.

@Paul Furey: the French deliberately hand balled to get to the last tournament ahead of the Irish and FIFA looked the other way. What is the difference between the French doing that and the Russians taking drugs? None as far as I can see.

@Sean:
Thats cause your an idiot. One man in one moment of a match instinctively using his hand to control the ball is no way comparable to an operation run by a government in which they systematically drug their own athletes so that they can feel a bit more important cause they won a few more medals.

@Stephen Coveney: State sponsored cheating is still cheating. It just has the words State sponsored before it. The point I was making was that if cheating is so reprehensible to the sporting principles of fair play then the Henry handball should be treated similarly. Henry was decent enough to admit it after the match. He said “I will be honest, it was a handball. I played it. The ref allowed it. You should ask him”.

@Stephen Coveney: also I’m not an idiot and reject that accusation in its entirety. Idiots put pencils in their nose and say wibble and I clearly do not fall into this category.

@Garry Coll:
nice that you brought up Pat Hickey since he said himself that Putin was trying to intervene to get him released in Brazil. Peas in a Pod. Rest of your post in just usual russian “we’re not to blame, everyone else is”

@Jason Power: They totally bribed the IOC to take part in Rio, as is there modus operandi. Should have received the death penalty instead of the slap on the wrist they got. Russian “athletes” were justifiably booed by the crowds in Rio.