Faster, higher, fabor!

The Australian businessman wants to organize and conduct an alternative Olympiad-completely free from doping control. Many supported this idea. But will it work out officially?

The Olympic movement suffers collapse. For a long time. There are many reasons. And one of them and, possibly, the most important is the imperfection of the doping system. Permanent scandals with testing and revising the results after many years devalue the title of Olympic champion. In addition, the approach to athletes from different countries at WADA (World Anti -Doping Agency), as it turned out, is different. Some athletes caught with red -handed on the use of prohibited substances are understood and forgiven, others are strictly punished for any insignificant medicinal puncture without any condescension. In short, the entrepreneur from Melbourne Aaron de Coose was tired of watching such “correct” traditional sports festivals and he launched the new Enhanced Games movement (advanced games). In his "pumped" festival, all athletes-dopingists of the world will be able to participate. And no officers with jars for tests after fins!

I will say right away. Such an Australian venture is pretty, although I have never smoked even cigarettes in my life and I am sharply negative about any forbidden substances. But the thing is that pharmacology has long been penetrated into great sport. Yes, and it is no secret to anyone that over the past 70 years of Olympiads without deceptions, in fact, there were no. It all started not with chemicals. For example, representatives of the USSR and Germany practiced “gender tricks”. Here the volleyball player Alexander Chudin can be remembered, and the jump/jump in the height of Doru-Genrich Ratienne. The gender test was introduced only in 1966. According to experts, some athletes were intersexuals (that is, they had sexual characteristics that did not coincide with the typical definition of a male or female gender), this is what our first Olympic champion, thruser of the disk Nina Ponomarev-Romashkova said: “Men were present in the women's team of my generation. They can be seen! They brought the country medals and records, so the authorities rejoiced and closed their eyes until the sex control appeared ... ”But, I emphasize that they did not catch anyone for the causal place, so all this remained in an unofficial folder“ completely unequivocally ”.

In the literal sense, many athletes began to prick in about the mid-1950s. It is noteworthy that on July 27, 1956, the 22-year-old winner of the Tour de France cycling, Eddie Merks, Speaks refused to go to doping control. The case was furious, but the case was widely publicized and opened his eyes to the adorers not only of cycling on the doping problem.

30 years later, on August 11, 1987, the Olympic champion and chairman of the USSR heavy athletics Federation Yuri Vlasov in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda shocked the naive Soviet and foreign public as the following revelation:

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Yuri Vlasov:

“About the late 60s, medications, mainly anabolic, have widely entered large sport. Anabolics are hormonal preparations, stimulants of cell protein biosynthesis. In short, they are sparkling with muscle mass, sharply increase the energy of the body. Such drugs are usually prescribed weakened, postoperative patients and in other diseases. The Americans felt this. In my opinion, the state throwers for the first time began to use anabolics-retabolil, non-working. The pioneer here was Harold Konnolly (he himself admitted this in the press). Now, there are already much more powerful drugs in everyday life. ”

Vlasov’s words turned out to be true. For example, in 1990, the Olympic champion Seoul-88, the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, from which the gold medal was selected, was selected on Furazobol, and two world records were selected. And few people already believed that the heroes of sports were gaining for large starts of forces, eating for breakfast exclusively corn flakes with low -fat milk. In addition, I repeat, not a single games since then did without “medical” scandals and revelations. And I'm sure they will not cost in the future.

Well, why continue to deceive yourself and others - the millionaire from the green continent decided. His daring sentence, although it looks controversial and ambiguous, but is by no means meaningless. Quote: “The current doping control system has completely discredited itself. Olympiads mired in corruption. Despite supposedly hard checks, individual comrades find loopholes ... IOC and WADA have created a system that forces the use of illegitimate drugs secretly. It’s so correctly to cancel these procedures at all and honestly compete without any tests. ”

Moreover, Aaron de Coose believes that “science makes humanity and sport better and fair, and asks the question:

“If the athlete has the opportunity to improve and strengthen his body, why should he limit himself in this? And why do you even fight pharmaceuticals, which can help, including prevent aging in the future? ”

It is clear that the Australian threw his fishing rod primarily into the seas of those athletes who were caught on the use of illegal substances and disqualified. He offers them not to return in the future to the old paths (forget about classic forums) and boldly join the new movement.

It is curious that supporters of the antiolympic direction have their own website where they anonymously collect information about athletes using doping using other various prohibited methods of preparation and hiding it. In this statistics there is even a person who ran a hundred -meter allegedly faster than Usain Bolt. However, since the photos and passport data of the “record holders” are not yet published, you have to believe (or not believe) for a word. And in this way, de Souza and his adherents want to turn to those whom they once trampled into the mud for the type of dishonest game-Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, Lance Armstrong ...

Aaron wants to launch his first games in December next year. So far, five types are planned: gymnastics, martial arts, light and heavy athletics, as well as water sports. The choice is quite reasonable (among representatives of these disciplines, dopingists are often found). In the future, the businessman involves the fabric starts annually.

The leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), of course, was expressed sharply and strictly with a finger to those who decide to participate in the alternative and inconsistent with the well -known norms of the tournament (Aaron invited those who did not use the indicators of “pure” and “improved” ones. Athletes).

And the head of the Australian delegation in Paris-2024 Anna Mins called this approach "ridiculous, unfair and unsafe." However, de Souza has no doubt that Olympic officials have no chance to prohibit his brainchild.

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“We have been living in the world of victorious democracy, and the IOC has been leading us on a dictatorial leash for a hundred years,” said a native of Melbourne, who believes that athletes who dream of breaking records (albeit with the help of steroids) must be supported. Including financially. The businessman is sure that each athlete should receive its percentage of participation in the Olympics. By the way, all residents of the Games are contrary to the Games will receive the shares of Enhanced Games, which will allow them to count on the same additional income. “Sports bureaucrats grab millions, and those who have once reached the highest level of human perfection, erasure a beggarly existence,” De Souza explained their thought.

Incredibly, but the fact: the organizers have already received about 150 applications for “new boundless” games (of course, the names of those who wish are still hidden), the idea of ​​which, by the way, was supported even by the 2004 Olympic champion Roland Mark Shuman. However, there is no clarity with the venue yet. At the same time, Aaron claims that his competition will cost much cheaper than the traditional Olympiad and will not require special and additional infrastructure.

Someone will say: presenting such games is a shame. I repeat, I am a probable holding of an unlimited show with understanding.

Doping today, unfortunately, takes place in every professional sports. And always was.

Here is a quote from an interview with Lance Armstrong (the Great Bicycle, Winfrey, disqualified for life).

- Could a person win the seven “tours” without using steroids?

- Not in that generation.

And while there is professional sport, where a lot of money is spinning today, there will be doping. The thing is that the status of drugs is constantly changing. Yesterday is a regular tablet from a cold or a diuretic. Tomorrow is doping. Or the drug hiding it. Remember Alina Kabaeva, who was disqualified in 2001 for the use of furosemide (a diuretic who has become one day forbidden for athletes, as it removes traces of illegal drugs from the body). Or the notorious Meldonium, which is sold in pharmacies without a prescription (in the USSR and Russia it was accepted and accepted to strengthen the heart muscle). But in 2016, WADA suddenly included it on the list of substances that were underlined for athletes, because it decided that the drug is a metabolic modulator. Kramol will soon be found at such a pace and activated coal.

Where is the logic? But she is not. Or another example. It is no secret that the Chinese athletes before games in Beijing 2008 practiced a special acupuncture, ate bugs, worms, mushrooms, roots, and used other “folk medicines”. In the laboratories, the "effect" from such "manipulations" was then not discovered. Or simply did not want to find him in order to allow the owners of the Olympiad to surprise the whole world with 48 gold medals?

It is likely that earthen and animals “stimulants” can also soon be under the heading “doping”. After all, the ingress of ordinary drugs in the “shooting lists” is, as the Olympic practice shows, a matter of time.

And the will of the steep "wrestlers for cleanliness." Here is one side of the medal. By and large, looking for and determining what to consider doping is a real farce. And in this “business”, by the way, gigantic sums are spinning and large pharmacological offices are involved.

Now about the other side, even more, in my opinion, important. The loads that athletes are subjected to and are subjected, especially modern, are so transcendental that, by abandoning the “vitamins”, you can simply die. Yes, and professional sport itself without doping, oddly enough, will turn into physical education, which will be interesting only to the participants themselves. The results, whatever one may say, will fall sharply.

But does the use of doping do not ultimately affect the body negatively and often does not lead to early death? The bike lover Tommy Simpson died right during the “tour de France” (amphetamines and alcohol will be found in his blood). The American Queen of the Sprint, the three-time Olympic champion Florence Griffith-Joyner suddenly died at the age of 38 from a heart attack (she was not caught on doping, but many have no doubt that she ran faster not only thanks to her talent). And these are only one of the most famous tragic episodes. Professional sport itself (and without doping) is a thing that is crippled. And all the athletes, who once chose sport with their work, risk health and life. So then it is generally on this basis to cancel big sport?

Doping is not good, indisputable. But to catch some and not to catch others, compose permissible and unacceptable doses of a substance - this is the same again, I repeat, hypocrisy and politics. Is it not easier to allow those people who do the impossible before our eyes to compete without any checks? And again, a quote from Aaron's speech:

“Athletes are adults. And they have the right to do everything they wish with their body: my body is my business, your body is your business. And neither the authorities of the country, nor national federations should decide for athletes. ”

And personally, at least kill me, in any case, watching the battle of Norwegian “asthmatics” on the track is much more interesting than watching, say, amateur race of “Russian Ski”. And the mass exposures of individual champions of the XXI century, which are today at the Zenith of Glory, is, again, I will be a matter of time.

So, maybe it is worth listening to Aaron de Sauze and try to cancel all doping checks?