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Theodore Wirth
We (U.S.) are particularly good at moralizing. Witness how we gleefully punish foreign banks for misdeeds, all while we let U.S. banks run wild and bilk fellow citizens.
Andrew
This seems like quite a deflection considering USADA has nothing to do with drug testing in pro or collegiate sports.
Strangerland
Maybe that's the problem.
sf2k
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theFu
In the USA, Pro sports players usually have enough money to buy off a doctor to gain access to the best drugs that aren't caught by current drug testing.
Why else would an NBA player spend their off-season in Germany?
In a few years, the drug tests will catch up and a whole new batch of PED will be used instead. Only the poor people get caught.
mrtinjp
If there was no doping,none, than in the Olympics, the US would be competing for medals tally at the 15th position and not the 1st.
Strangerland
They keep samples, and re-test with new technologies in the future. Those using PEDs have to consider that their undetectable method today, may become detectable tomorrow.
lostrune2
In the US, pro sports are governed by rules reached between the owners and the players union through arbitration negotiations
MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc.
USADA can't force those owners or the players to do anything unless where it concerns playing in the Olympics
lostrune2
The problem with Russia goes beyond the athletes but more significantly the system - they're still banned in International Athletics:
http://www.beinsports.com/en/athletics/news/iaaf-maintains-russias-athletics-ban-over-dop/939333
There's no such system or access problem in the US