Olympism died

Former Olympic movement will never be the same

In the matter of the removal of the Russian team officials the WADA, the IOC and other authorities moved last line, which finally start the process, who caused irreparable harm to the Games.

Olympism is dead! He has risen! And we have killed him! Olympism as the ideological foundation of the Olympic Movement ceased to exist over the weekend, and now we expect it to long and tedious funeral.

Jesuit IOC decision

Makes enthusiasm of TV-channel "Russia-24" about the fact that the IOC is not removed our Olympic team to participate in the Summer Olympics in Rio is nothing more than good mine at a very bad game. Important to say - IOC gives a decision on the participation of specific athletes at the mercy of sports federations, which should convene the Commission and the other (a long procedure).

In addition, the IOC does not question the report of a Canadian lawyer, a specialist in mortgage law Richard McLaren. Moreover, the athletes and officials mentioned in this "investigation" will not be allowed to participate in the Games.

What does it mean? Everything is quite simple. At the Olympics will go a very small and insignificant part of our team, provided that the individual federations strongly warning in advance, as from the date of the verdict of the IOC before the opening of the Games is 12 days. Those who go will be put at a disadvantage, since the difference of time zones for athletes requires lengthy acclimatization - from a week to three.

The idea of our need for a long time to be there and to continue training in the Brazilian climate. But they are still waiting, when officials from the international sports condescend to them, and be allowed to speak at the Olympics, perhaps under a neutral flag. This situation contributes to the victory of our athletes? No need to be an expert in the field of sports training to respond uniquely to this simple question. Do not conducive.

The second aspect of the decision of the IOC is McLaren’s report, unconditionally accepted the truth subordinates Thomas Bach. No objections are not accepted by Moscow. You can falsely accuse our athletes of all mortal sins - it will be accepted on faith, because "it's Russian."

Useless scrap of paper, or McLaren’s report

Meanwhile, McLaren's report - is a mix of detective stories and distributed in the USA clichés about Russia. According to a Canadian, it's not without its domestic secret service, who "substitute" test tube with the urine of athletes who used doping. By the way, in Sochi it was done specially trained FSB (KGB) man disguised as a plumber, says McLaren.

Despite the fact that a representative of Berlinger Special AG, a producer of containers for storage of urine and blood samples at the doping control, issued a statement which stated that none of its own tests conducted by an independent institute in Switzerland, it was impossible to open the sealed urine samples.

It is worth noting that McLaren's report is based on data from "informant" as it is called Western journalists, Gregory Rodchenkov - the former head of the Russian Anti-Doping Centre, which in 2016 fled to the United States.

It is noteworthy that the World Anti-Doping Agency earlier in 2015 sought the Rodchenkov’s dismissal as director of FSUE "Anti-Doping Center", which was subordinate to the Moscow anti-doping laboratory. In particular, in September 2015 WADA experts, it was stated that Rodchenkov involved in extorting money from the athletes for concealing doping positive samples. This is such a wonderful witness to the crystal-clear reputation.

Wishes to see the trace of the United States Olympic Committee in this story is not without interest to know that one of his close friends McLaren is an elderly American, George Mitchell, former US senator, as well as the State Department's special envoy on the Middle East from 2009 to 2011.

In addition, Mitchell headed the commission on the ethics of the US Olympic Committee, and during the Cold War, he served in the US military intelligence in the West Berlin. Then he was invited to work for the CIA. However, by this invitation Mitchell refused. His attitude to our country, George Mitchell expressed in his work Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism (Mitchel, 1997).

Brave New World

But the problem is still in a deep crisis of the Olympic Movement. As you know, the Olympic Games were revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century and gradually developed up to the present moment. Among other things Coubertin argued that the sport should be out of politics, and proclaimed the principles of fair play (fair play).

As observed Coubertin’s principles today, can be seen in any Olympics. No matter how the IOC seeks to retouch a political attack on the persecution of the Russian team, it turns out poorly. Obviously, all this is politics. A doping nowadays has become an indispensable companion of high performance sport in any country, because modern sports records are on the brink of human capabilities.

How were forgotten once the Olympic Games of antiquity (let's call them pre-olimpic games), and today the Olympic movement modernity gives way to the incoming post-olimpizm in which sport - this is politics. Sport is the absence of the principle of fair play outside the rules of the competition. Sport is a competition largely not athletes, lawyers, pharmaceutical corporations and PR-agencies. Sport is the competition area are not athletes and teams and countries.

Critics of the modern Olympic Movement proposes to allocate for the game "clean" athletes - more prestigious. And separately - not as massive and widely publicized doping game.

This one caught for doping athlete shall be disqualified for life. However, there is an association with the banned "super-anabolic" – Meldonium (Mildronate), which can be bought at any drugstore of Russia, where it will be called Mildronate. Justification of Mildronate inclusion in the list of banned drugs still remains a matter of dispute. However, our athletes have already suffered because of the domestic sports medicine is unlikely to be found more frequently prescribed medication (can compete with Mildronate unless Riboxinum and Adaptogens).

Anyway, the former Olympic movement will never be. In the matter of the actual removal of the entire Russian team on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations raw WADA officials, IOC, the International Athletics Federation and International Sports Arbitration passed the extreme line, which finally launched the processes that can cause the Games - a wonderful holiday celebration of the human spirit - an irreparable harm.

Several conclusions for Russian National sports.

1. Recent events have also demonstrated how we are not ready for such information battles. And at the same time sports attract public attention. Therefore, all the scandals surrounding these events get viral spread. For this reason, we should expect a similar performance in the run-up to the World Cup in 2018, which will be held in our country.

2. Authorized the structures are necessary to draw important lessons from what happened and finally understand what the priorities should be changed in the development of national sports. Today's policy of supporting primarily elite sport is the Russian system of sports training at a standstill.

The reason for this is that the intensive development of mass sport due to a larger number of competitors and the availability of sports facilities, the system of selection and early sports specialization in the long term will lead to the development of high performance sport. Unfortunately, in the opposite direction, this process does not work.

3. It is necessary to restore order in the domestic sports federations. And this applies not only to Olympic sports. Ministry of Sport Policy in this area has led, in particular, to the fact that, for example, karate sport are today three federations with official accreditation and receive funding from the Ministry.

4. An important step for the development of mass sports, we will be the revival of the Games of the peoples of the USSR in its new version.

5. Requires a fundamental reform of the national anti-doping system, and domestic sports pharmacology - the support of the Ministry of Sports ...

But the evidence base to break McLaren's report even after the Olympics, followed by the prosecution of a Canadian lawyer in international bodies - is a necessary thing.