The entire sports world is rising up against the American Rodchenkov Act
On Monday, a BBC Sport broadcast suddenly featured the "WADA whistleblower and clean sport champion" controversial defector Grigory Rodchenkov, or a person posing as Rodchenkov.
It’s impossible to say for sure, since a head in a hat, wrapped in rags, loomed on the screen and waving its claws, booming in bad English. The channel did not provide evidence that it was Rodchenkov on the screen.
Such a powerful conspiracy is explained by the fact that, hiding in the United States, Rodchenkov fears revenge from the Russian special services for “exposing the leaden abominations happening behind the scenes of Russian sports.”
this is what Rodchenkov looks like today
And this time, the former overseer of the test tubes with urine came out with another portion of revelations, telling TV viewers about the exciting reasons for the refusal of the USSR and most of the Eastern Bloc countries to participate in the 84 Olympics in Los Angeles, allegedly due to fear of devastating doping scandals.
From the dull and completely uninteresting speech of the “ripping off the covers” figure, it was clear that Rodchenkov (or his effigy) came out on TV to remind of himself, because for the last two years (at least) he, like waste slag, has been suffering from lack of demand.
You've done the job - take a walk in the forest!
Urine tube caretaker
The main reason for which Rodchenkov’s rag simulacrum was released was to demand, through the largest British broadcasting corporation, to deprive the Russian Olympic team of the right to compete at the Tokyo Olympics, “because Russian athletes and sports management have not learned anything.”
It is also possible that Rodchenkov was plucked out by his owners like a bug from a feather bed, in order to create a negative background on the eve of the consideration of the “Russia v. WADA” appeal in the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport. It has been announced that CAS hearings will begin in three weeks.
It should be noted that it has recently become increasingly difficult for Rodchenkov to expose Russian sports and athletes.
Not only were the “WADA informant” and the organization for which he worked unable to completely isolate Russia from international sports competitions, in addition, experts from Germany published in the influential weekly Der Spiegel the results of an examination stating that Rodchenkov’s signatures on doping test documents Russian biathletes Olga Zaitseva, Yana Romanova, Olga Vilukhina are fake, and this casts doubt on all the results of the “doping investigations” against the medalists of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
It is equally important that Rodchenkov recently became a non-handshake member of the IOC.
The reason for this was the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act approved by the US Congress in October last year.
Despite its obvious anti-Russian orientation, RADA poses a potential threat to sports medalists from any country except the American ones.
The bill provides for criminal and financial sanctions for any attempts to "influence the results of sports competitions using prohibited means, drugs and methods,” giving American security forces the power to prosecute individuals around the world, suspected of fraud.
Many countries around the world have strict laws against doping in sports, but their effect is limited by state borders. In the USA, as always, they are ahead of the curve, extending domestic legislation to the rest of the world.
It is touching that the authors of RADA are Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. “Amerika ponad use!”
To enter into force, RADA must receive approval from the Senate and the signature of the US President, but Rodchenkov rejoices in advance and rubs his sweaty palms.
According to the Rodchenkov Act, anyone who is declared by American judicial authorities to be a manufacturer, distributor or consumer of doping is at risk of arrest and extradition to the United States. And these are pharmaceutical companies, sports teams, coaches, sports doctors and even massage therapists.
All of them face 10 years in prison and a fine of $250 thousand - $1 million.
From now on, if American athletes accuse a victorious opponent of doping, American courts will meet them halfway and begin to prosecute the “unclean one.”
This shows what wide scope for manipulation and abuse in favor of American sports, the pharmaceutical, advertising, and sports industries, the Rodchenkov Act provides, hiding behind the most noble intentions - the protection of “clean” and fair sports.
How this happens even without the use of the Rodchenkov Act - we can see with our own eyes for a long time, watching the victories of masculine American athletes and cancer-stricken veterans of American sports, who were prescribed doping “for medical reasons” on the eve of competitions.
It is also worth remembering that WADA declared the harmless meldonium a doping drug in order to tie foreign athletes to the consumption of similar American drugs to restore athletic fitness for athletes.
Thus, the American sports industry, suffering losses from the victories of Russian and foreign athletes, will extract lost profits with the help of the US judicial and law enforcement agencies, acting as the final authority in the distribution of sports medals.
Even the IOC groaned at such brazen encroachments into someone else’s clearing, calling on the Americans, first of all, to join the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sports (IPACS) system, and not to arrogate to themselves the exclusive right to judge and punish.
However, Americans are not interested in IPACS, since its founders and regulatory bodies are the IOC and the Council of Europe.
There is no doubt that the Rodchenkov Act will force the international community to unite and take action against the undivided hegemony of the United States in sports.
We can already hear proposals to condemn RADA from the UN rostrum and demand that the United States refuse to adopt the law, or firm guarantees of the non-application of the Act in international sports competitions.
If it doesn’t help, hit the businessmen in the most sensitive place - money, threatening a boycott of athletes, goods, companies and services. Arrogance should not become a second happiness!
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