Doping and Olympics

Snob.ru Observer Ivan Davydov writes that it is difficult for him to believe, but he has not even passed since the start of the Olympics in Sochi. Rather, it’s hard to believe that she was once at all, this Olympics. That the opening ceremony was not without a certain sophistication caused universal delight. That we followed the victories and failures of athletes. That in the news there were not corpses and ruins, but springboard and ski routes. What if people with weapons appeared on the TV screen, then they were biathlonists and shot not at other people, but at unrequited black circles. And they called the then heroes somehow humanly: Daria Domracheva. Julia Lipnitskaya. Victor An. Yes, at least even Ule-Einar Bierndalen.

It's hard to believe, although I was there and I saw all this with my own eyes. And now, no matter how strange it sounds, it is a pathos and expensive entertaining event now seems to me a very important historical milestone. It is clear that in a couple of weeks from the TV they will remind the country how great it was, how much we won everything then and how much we proved all of everything.

This, of course, is nonsense. Just the Olympiad was the last attempt to break out of the hassle of the gray future into the human present.

You generally remember how many different things took us just recently, a year and a half ago, I don’t say two? It seems that the development vector chosen by the state was then quite understandable, and the deputies riveted their underground laws, and judged the innocent, and condemned, and the president with a false beak flew in the sky with the Siberans. And yet.

I at random, offhand sorting through topics that are really important and simply funny, without trying to rank them without even trying to adhere to a chronological sequence. The fate of orphans, deprived of the right to life, the title of honorary eagle, accepted by the Prime Minister in the Pioneer Camp, the acts and death of the Baroness Tatcher, the national question and the Biryulevsky vegetable base, dancing in the temple, multi-thousandth rallies in the squares, the elections of the Moscow Mayor, sawed by the Levich Bulgarian (no matter who it is, do not try to remember).

Olympic construction projects, Olympic embezzlement, Olympic torch, which for some reason is constantly gus, double toilets and comrade Bilalov (it does not matter who it is, do not try to remember).

The clatter of cats, the journey of Sasha Gray, a woman of difficult fate, on a difficult Lada-Kalin car on the difficult roads of our homeland. The court in Kirov and the court in Moscow. An article in a popular newspaper about lampshades made of human skin and lost possibilities is a timid harbinger of current triumphant anti -fascism.

Russian island (again construction and theft), a summit on the island of Russian and Obama, who did not find time to come to the island of Russian. By the way, yes, imagine, it was surprised at that time, and some even insulted for some - that he did not find time to come to us.

And then suddenly - Ukraine, Ukraine and Ukraine. Light tires, fiery speeches, a fire extinguisher from which Klitschko was doused - and not a minute of time to look at himself. Ukraine captured everyone, Ukraine replaced Russia from the Russian agenda, Ukraine canceled Russia.

The Olympiad was the last attempt to break out of the hassle of the gray future to human present

The Russian authorities, dumbfounded, probably, as a spectacle: how can it turn out that the people can go out and the power to shift the power, - offered the country this game to Ukraine. And the country rushed to play, and the country began to play.

And then - a stone under the mountain, through the Crimea and Odessa to the Donbass. The tongue-tied folk mayors in a broken Russian preach the willingness to die for the right to speak in Russian, and on the outskirts of Slavyansk there is a laconic completely retired reconstructor.

In February, the fourteenth I did not know that there is such a city in the world - Slavyansk. And it’s not at all a shame to admit that I did not know. I would like not to know further, but it didn’t work out.

Blood, corpses, ruins, Russian spring and the wedding of the militia Motorola. And it seems that it will always be so and that it has never been different.

And even the injections of reality, like a stock collapse, if they return Russia to Russia, then for a short while. Cut with the euro course, recall the course of the party and government, and again there, to the war, where they run and scorch in all directions of a sipper, log and pin.

And, in general, it doesn’t matter who they are for us: the saints, as I recently read in the same patriotic newspaper, whose faces should decorate temples, or just war criminals. It is important that we have no one except them. We ourselves are not there. We lost our country, admiring their exploits. They lost their own, and they mutilated someone else’s, and it is still unknown, for which he will be asked more strictly.

The main trouble is that this is a game, pure technology. After all, we do not have a country, which means there is no problem. If the problem is suddenly detected, then this is a consequence of enemy machinations. The revenge of the unkind world to us for the geopolitical successes and support of the liberation struggle of the pin. The war cancel the problems, both speculative and purely material. We used to argue violently whether it was worth planting for blasphemy, and now the majority of the population, without exchanging disputes, approves the murders of those who, by negligence, insulted the gentle feelings of particularly vulnerable citizens. At the same time, products in stores are getting more expensive, and the president’s rating is growing.

And this is not quite our war. Despite the fact that we have nothing but this war, despite the fact that the corpses of our fellow citizens are brought from there, that, although it is embarrassed to recognize itself as one of the warring parties, it has already bogged down in this war on the ears-it is far away there. For us, it is television and not quite real.

This is still enough to steal Russia and cancel problems. But there will only be more problems who doubt it? And in order to cancel them, a completely different war will be needed. Big, real, not leaving space for shy lies.

Are there many chances that such a technology - proven and effective - will not be worked out in full?

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The correspondent of the newspaper Sport-Express Oleg Shamonaev believes that Russian teams may lose the opportunity to start at the stages of the winter cups of the world outside Europe.

The last winter season, during which the national teams had almost unlimited financial and organizational resources at the disposal of the national teams, most likely will remain unique in the history of domestic sports. In the foreseeable future, many of our teams will have to switch to a strict regime of savings, despite the desire of the country's sports leadership to maintain funding at the same level.

Some of the sports federations have already received an indication of reducing plans to go to the competition, especially to remote countries and in cases where Russian athletes do not claim high places

According to SE, some of the sports federations have already received an indication of reducing plans to go to the competition, especially to remote countries and in cases where Russian athletes do not claim high places.

It is also about such status starts as the stages of the World Cup. So, last weekend, the Russian male team in spring jumping was absent in cup competitions in Japan. Earlier, the main team of the country in Skeleton refused a trip to North America, and Akrobata freestylers also saved on performances in the States.

Such oddities are officially explained by the position of the coaching staff, the features of set of form to the main starts of the season and care for the health of athletes. For example, the recent refusal of the leaders of the national short track from the Far Eastern stages of the World Cup was motivated by the need to calmly prepare for the planet’s home championship.

It's okay that we do not take space in the second or third dozens in some darkness, of course, there is no. Especially in the post -Olympic season, which is perceived by many as experimental and on which tough sports tasks are not set. However, there is an important nuance: missed starts are present in a single calendar plan of the Ministry of Sports, which means that they must be completely or partially funded from the budget. Alas, this budget turned back even before the sharp fall in the ruble exchange rate, and, as the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said, it is not planned to review it. This means that those teams that do not have wealthy sponsors will have to tighten the belts tighter.

The conversations that the comfortable life in the "small" sports will end after the home Olympiad, went on a long time. However, until the fall of last year, sports leaders of all ranks assured that the previous high level of financing would be preserved. Perhaps this would happen. In any case, the Olympic Committee of Russia managed to persuade Gazprom to extend the sponsorship contract for $ 130 million to prepare the country's national teams for the Olympic Games. There was no sharp reduction in financing either through the Ministry of Sports: the country's government this year allocated 100 billion rubles for a new program for the development of physical education and sports until 2020.

However, problems associated with the drop in oil prices and a decrease in the ruble exchange rate can lead to a sequestra of sports costs.

According to SE, the presence of our teams in almost any stages of the winter cups of the world outside Europe was in question. It is unlikely that in the foreseeable future we will return to the situation of the dashing of the 1990s, when, due to the lack of money for a trip to decisive cup starts, Russian athletes could lose the opportunity to earn a crystal globe. The Russian team will definitely be presented at all the world's upcoming championships in Olympic sports. But another thing is clear: the times when our athletes could carry out fees anywhere in the globe, perform at any competition and hire top specialists from any country, go into the past.

In fact, a return to their own in low -budget sports is a healthy process. Nevertheless, the situation when Russian athletes financially were an order of magnitude better than their foreign colleagues, including from rich countries, was not entirely normal. One way or another, for some of our athletes and functionaries, this will be a very painful process. For the "fat" years, many of them, to put it mildly, have ceased to be ascetics and have forgotten how to look for money anywhere else, except for the state wallet.

It is likely that a clash with a new reality will lead to significant personnel changes in the leadership of some federations and sports clubs. Otherwise, keeping high positions in the team standings at the nearest Russian Olympiads will be very difficult.

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Evgeny Dzichkovsky in the article on the website "Gazeta.ru" phantus on the topic of possible legalization of doping.

Let's allow doping. Well, it's time already. Many people want this, many suffer without it. The President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation Valentin Balakhnichev, for example, recently resigned because of him, because of doping. And the head coach of the national team Valentin Maslakov was awarded a decrease in the rank for the same reason. He headed the whole team - began to lead only sprinters and barriers. In theory, it would be nice to figure out if Maslakov is to blame? If not, what to lower it for? And if it is to blame, why expose the risk of sprinters with barriers? But we have our winding path in the fight against doping. And sprinters are a completely safe direction. Have they ever caught doping? Pure people.

The problem, however, requires a radical solution. To Maslakov, the national team was led by Valery Kulichenko. And he also resigned after a doping story. Now in Saransk the hardworking coach Viktor Chegin is waiting for its fate. There is also a group of sad walkers, throws and runners. Everyone has a common problem: what helps to win is forbidden for some reason. So let me, the Milk Christmas trees! Let people jump as they want, and run into full speed!

A person has long exhausted the possibilities of his body. After Seoul-1988, when Ben Johnson ran a hundred meters for 9.79, only nine people did it faster. And only two of them were not caught on doping. Do you want to stare at the turtle of running? Let them eat something and rush around the stadium at the speed of sound. The people go to the amusing shows of wrestlers?! And they will go to it. Not all, understandable, but at least someone. With Pivas and dried squid.

Dangerous? Yes, quit. Mortality among the French racers of the scandalous "tour de France" is 41% lower than among other Frenchmen. It is not clear why healthy men with 7-liter lungs should die more often than their compatriots, but we will lower this moment. 41% are our statistics. Take doping, and life will blossom with new colors. Moreover, these are medications, and not some kind of drug.

Do you want to stare at the turtle of running? Let them eat something and rush around the stadium at the speed of sound. The people go to the amusing shows of wrestlers?! And they will go to it

And the most important thing is that everyone is dancing. "Their" - first of all. Even those who have never been caught. We already know these Bjorndalenes with felps. They are just cunning, but we are defenseless. We surrounded us from all sides, and let's eliminate competitors. The Germans with the television cameras are sent, they look at the blood abroad in a magnifying glass. Double standards! As if in Russia not the most truthful anti -doping service in the world. And as if we tend to conceal something in personal or career interests.

In general, it's time to legalize. The father of the Italian tennis player Camila Georgi, the impulsive Sergio, recently said: "All this anti -doping control is just ridiculous. The only way out is to allow the use of drugs, legalize doping. Although I would never allow Camille to take stimulations, because it is suicide." That is, it is time to allow, but he would not allow. Argument? And then.

A little earlier, a beautiful analogy was found by the American Superiezh Boxer Tony Thompson: "I know that for many people it will sound contradictory, but doping needs to be allowed. For me it is as a law on wearing weapons. Good guys observe the law, and therefore they remain unarmed."

As stated there: "Abraham Lincoln gave people freedom, and Colonel Colt equalized their chances"? Krasava Thompson. That is, let the good guys be bad, and you will find out what a real sport is. If you want, you won’t argue. Especially with executiveness.

And we will not argue. Just try to present a new world order that will reign in sports after the doping legalization. A beautiful, previously prohibited life.

On shield advertising along the tracks, sites and fields we will not see any more vodka or, God forbid, seeds. There will be completely pharmacological corporations. And on sports form too. And in the names of the teams. Even prefabricated. "At the distance-" Kenya-tetrahydrogestrinone "!" "The harmony of the gymnasts of the Romanian" Furosemis "pleases the eye!" After any Olympic victory - queues in pharmacies and sales growth around the world.

Russia in its characteristic manner will create a state monopoly responsible for the production and use of doping throughout the country. With a 5-million salary of top managers. America will support private business, Steve of Jobs Pilylic Industry. China will not create or support anything, but simply introduce doping studies with a separate subject at school, and doping will make doping mandatory for all citizens under 50 years of age. To reserve.

The number of doctors and carriages of the ambulance at the competitions of any rank will have to be accounted for. At the same time, the organizers will be obliged to keep a cataphal on duty nearby. And not one. After all, the upper boundary of the concentration of drugs in the human body is pointless to establish, otherwise what is the legalization? But it is her, the upper border, self -respecting athletes, champions in spirit, that will try to achieve. Accordingly, someone will have to fix death and take the troupe from stadiums and tracks.

A purely pharmacological days will appear in the training cycle. Monday - Run, Tuesday - power work, Wednesday - thawing of technology, Thursday, Friday - droppers, injections, enemas, consultations with worldwater pharmacology, Saturday - Farewell to relatives just in case, Sunday - remove syringes and packaging for a landfill.

Shooting competitions will be held with button accordion and fights, because for shooters the best doping is alcohol. The line between the transit and the fun of its properties is very fragile. So the headphones at the fire line will protect not only from the sounds of shots, but also from the cries of "noisy reed" performed by a neighbor on the right.

Athletes can be easily recognized by appearance. Now this is just a slight pimple, and then not at every time of the year. After legalization, bulging eyes and hair growth on the basis of the opposite sex will serve as a sure sign: before you is a hero of sports, he needs victory as air.

The question of who accepts and who does not, sink into oblivion. Everyone will be accepted, because without this it will be impossible to break even into district competitions. The athletes simply have no choice. Accept - or lose. At the same time, athletes will become screws of state cars. Особенно в тех странах, где на первых ролях духоподъемность, патриотизм и скрепы. Каждый старт по степени риска будет равен к полету в космос. "Я земля, я своих посылаю питомцев". Причем слово "посылаю" обретет двойной и "питомцев" – прямой смысл.

В спорте резко прибудет соревновательного драматизма. Полукиборгам придется драться не только за место на пьедестале, но и за собственную жизнь в борьбе с допингом. Сколько там миллионов на планете посмотрели три сезона "Голодных игр"? That's the same.

Борьба с весом, а также восстановление перестанут быть проблемой. Маскировать ничего не надо: принял мочегонное – пошел на взвешивание. Пробежал марафон, всосал энергетиков, завтра можешь бежать снова. Это позволит оптимизировать турнирные календари. Первенство мира по лыжам, например, можно будет втиснуть в неделю. А туры футбольных чемпионатов проводить через день. Зато в восемь кругов. Вот билетный бизнес-то попрет!

После разрешения допинга неминуема реабилитация пойманных в смутные годы. Запасы пробирок с анализами восьмилетней давности закатают в землю бульдозерами. Несправедливо наказанным с почестями вернут медали. Некоторым посмертно, упокой Господь их души. Вслед за медалями придется отдать отнятые призовые. МОК и спортивные федерации пойдут на поклон в Международный валютный фонд. Лэнс Армстронг снова станет любимцем нации и миллиардером. Бена Джонсона изберут премьер-министром Канады.

У лыжников и биатлонистов наряду с вакс-кабинами появятся фарм-кабины. В одних будут мазать, в других – вмазываться. Особо изобретательные найдут способ прямо на трассе подпитывать гонщиков разными субстанциями: успокоительной – перед стрельбой, возбуждающей – после стрельбы.

С течением времени придется решить еще несколько мелких вопросов. Окончательно забить на гендерный тест, например. Ведь мужские гормоны – великолепный допинг. Смириться с заменой отслуживших свое органов, ибо – а как проверишь? Тяжелоатлеты получат шанс вживлять в себя металлические предметы для усиления прочности организмов. Why not?

Наивным станет вопрос о возрастных рамках приема допинга. Детям разве не нужно побеждать? Ну если не самим детям, так их тренерам. К тому же молодежный спорт – отличный полигон для обкатки фармакологических новинок. Он и сейчас таков, тут много менять не потребуется.

Важным подспорьем станет решение проблемы трудоустройства чемпионов после завершения карьеры. Сейчас это головная боль. Спорт представляет собой социальный лифт, поэтому победителей приходится встраивать в органы государственной власти, сажать в чиновничьи кресла, одаривать благами. А те, будущие, долго не протянут. Допинг, принимаемый с малолетства, решит их судьбу в довольно сжатые сроки.

Well and so on. Картина не самая радужная, но другого выхода нет. Хорошие парни безоружны, колются все, а не только те, кто попадается, допинг-контроль неэффективен и политизирован... Что еще можно придумать?! Polygraph? Что ж, давайте проверять каждого перед стартом. Кололся? No? Заодно узнаем, какой процент ошибок выдает стандартный детектор лжи.

Но что, если спортсмен не знал, что он подколот? Потащим на полиграф врачей и тренеров. А если и они не знали, что стероиды подмешала в суп повариха по указке кого-то в кожаном пальто?

Говорю же: выхода нет, допинг нужно разрешать. Не перемрем, так покуражимся.

Одно смущает. Победы в спорте приносит не сам допинг, а преимущество, которое он дарит "грязным" против чистых. Если все будут "грязными", откуда взяться преимуществу?

Существует, конечно, совсем радикальный метод борьбы с запрещенными препаратами. Придуманный, между прочим, древними греками во времена настоящих Олимпийских игр. Победителю нужно дарить на финише оливковый венок. And all. То есть совсем все. Ни квартир, ни машин, ни призовых, ни спонсорских. В отдельных странах, богатых елками, а не оливами, для венка допускается использовать хвою.

Но метод этот страшноват. Велик риск, что он похоронит не только допинг, но и весь современный спорт.