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(08-20-2016, 09:31 PM)Resentine Wrote:(08-20-2016, 08:09 PM)Punchwood Wrote: Have you been living under a rock? Russia does well because it cheats, at state level. Look at the top 10 in the medal table right now They all happen to be developed nations, rich nations and highly populated nations On one hand, I agree that maybe there's more than meets the eye in regards to cheating; as my dad says, "the doper will always be a step ahead of the law, as he is always looking for new ways to game the system. The law has to adapt to the doper in order to catch him". On the other hand, it is clear that the IOC does care at least a little bit. They didn't ban the entire Russian team, but did punish former and new offenders severely and banned a great deal of them (it was a bit messy in practice, but I think the decision was correct). If they didn't care, they would have let the Russians in, drugs or not, considering how many things they end up winning. Being a bit stupid and not understanding your mistakes is not the same as being corrupt; unlike FIFA, whose leadership was actively embezzling money, taking bribes at every turn, and hiding funds in tax havens, the IOC itself is not corrupt. Also, we all have to recognize that, after all of the things that had been said about it, that it was a poverty stricken, polluted, Zika infested (in the time of year where mosquito levels are the lowest), crime riddled and corrupt wasteland, Brazil did manage to pull it off in the end. @Punchwood: I think the main factor would be public support for the athletes, training facilities, things like that. So, though economic power and population do help wonders with that, those are not the only thing to it. After all, countries such as Burundi, Fiji, Tajikistan, and Niger have won medals. My own country, Venezuela, won three medals; our best ever performance at the Olympics, in the worst ever economic crisis the country has suffered. PD: For a little footnote, I always thought before the games that cancelling them was a stupid idea. Besides the fact that Brazil has organized this kind of events before (Panamerican Games, Confederations Cup, the World Cup...), imagine if you had paid lots of taxes and they were used to build a stadium that wasn't used in the end because the event was moved to other country two months before it was due to start. I would be very, very pissed. Multiply that by millions of Brazilians, half of them already furious with the government. You know what would happen.
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