So many sad jokes about Parallels with the first half of the 80s: the country has entered a unnecessary war, the falling price of oil are going to the Olympics (for different reasons, but ultimately because of their own foolishness and unnecessary ambitions). It seemed that on the Parallels you can and finish. The tournament, a La “Friendship-84”, which then drove to participate the socialist camp, had exactly one repeat today… But I was wrong!
Quoting the press Secretary of the so-called athletics Federation (so-called because it is like as not she is out of the world athletics family) — so, I quote Alla Glushchenko, which have to be the voice of all this bureaucratic growth: “the Federation on July 28 will hold a tournament for the Russian athletes who do not yet have the opportunity to compete at the Olympic games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Thursday will be a tournament that athletes will be able to maintain its shape and to receive monetary compensation” (source: vedomosti.ru).
Well, you understood that here the main thing? It is about money. The money is allocated. To spend you need? If not blamed on the competition, and among themselves, to distribute will not work, right? Just remember strolling along a network joke “the Russian team was not allowed in Rio, but the ban does not apply to six thousand officials and their wives usually accompanied Olympians”.
Yes, and that Parallels do not end there: about the Olympics in Los Angeles you could learn is that listening to “enemy voices” — and now “the First channel” VGTRK, along with discuss the sharp decline of the Olympic broadcasts in its broadcast. Not allowed to our — well, then there is nothing you, the bourgeoisie, to do in our air!
And when has already lost everything there was to lose (except money for the officials, of course), suddenly the light of God come out again the same two things that accompany the national sport lately: ridiculous personnel decisions, and moaning about the global conspiracy against Russia, designed to drown out own stupidity and greed. Moaning about to say is not interested. Had a roll on the Paralympics — again began to wring his hands: this sport is the people back to life, how is it to accuse them… Or else — this is a favorite: why “clean” athletes are responsible for the sins of those who were sitting on the dope? But is it possible to believe that if the Russian sport is sitting on the needle, then he sits on it some their separate factions? This Federation clean, and this is not really? It’s like the cops RAID the brothel: some taken, and others fled. The runaway and not be caught is more than caught deserve leniency?
But about the appointments are worth a special mention: in the moment when everything is about Russian doping, realized, arrived, the decision is very specific properties. Some “independent Commission against doping” (this is domestic, for its correct application, without loud reports and investigations) will be headed by Vitaly Smirnov, the one that was the head of the Russian Olympic Committee and silently went in 2001-m to year of retirement after having been caught accepting bribes in determining the next Olympic capital. But the camera then posts never left — he just made space for someone who could put the President on skiing and therefore in return receive various incentives. Olympics in salt lake city was the first Olympics without Smirnova, and that’s when it happened the first in a series of scandals with the Russians: not having the weight and authority in the international Olympic community (which is a kind of mafia, a closed circle, it is not for novices), which was clear of security services Smirnova, tractors no skaters are not protected when they raspolovinit with the Canadians the gold medal, no doping scandal skiers do not put out.
But to put 81-year-old man 15 years after his departure from the Olympic movement — is to show that you’re not able to advance in technology, in methodology, in pharmacology, in the end. This means that you put the person with only the old regime conservative conservative approach. Your task — to clear the clearing, and to cover it from prying eyes. Your task is not to solve the problem and get rid of unnecessary conversations.
So hope for the fight against doping in Russia, which we could do by yourself, and most importantly — to sincerely, yet no more.
