Scandal is an Olympic triumphs were inevitable. Sovereign revenge has not been very successful in all areas, and this is no exception.
Russian sport is part of a system that is unable to change.© CC0 Public Domain
Sergei Selin
Explorer
IA “Rosbalt”
To understand the historical place and to feel the peculiar greatness of our doping Saga, it is necessary to start from the old thoughts of one insightful analyst: “something remains unsaid from the Soviet Union.”
So. In the last few years trying to finish, finally, this “unsaid”, followed one after another. And literally all parts of reality.
Tried to regain power in former limits. Results in the Crimea and DNR-LNR. A “Russian world” and “Novorossiya” had to be removed from the propaganda clips.
Several times at the highest level, has solemnly proclaimed that surpassed Germany in economic size. With the United States, China, India and Japan to measure not already tried, but the Germans in the end had to give up. So they stayed ahead.
With the arms back to the middle East, the once densely populated Soviet satellites. And today the force is only enough to somehow keep a single dilapidated and all hated the regime.
The Kremlin’s new minimalism
One after another, sovereign counter does not exactly broken, but be much less than in former times. It doesn’t come out even close to resembling the old Soviet swing.
And only the sports field recently looked suitable for complete and even the world-historical revenge. It seemed that here it is possible to again become the most important on the planet.
The Soviet Union participated in nine summer and winter Olympics, respectively, six and seven times was the first by number of gold medals. The Russian Federation gradually came down to the fourth place at the summer Games in 2012 and sharply – on the eleventh of Winter in 2010. And suddenly it seemed that the decline was replaced by bloom.
Return to the top spot on the Sochi games in 2014, was formulated and solved as a task of the state the highest category of importance. The rate was extremely high, revenge, it would seem, took place in full, and now it turns out that all is ruined. With the “sport” counterattack of the Empire was about the same as on other sites, but only worse.
Here is a list of the main components of failure.
Esprit de corps is worse than doping
First. Russian sport is an integral part of our system. In all its parts and from top to bottom it works the same way as she. The purity and integrity of his records is exactly the same as any paper that came from our state Agency and any report, written in a state-owned Corporation.
He has the same standards and the same management. Patrons and even the official heads of sports associations — entirely nobleman of the first or, at worst, second row, from Nikolai Patrushev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Association of volleyball, and to Viktor Khristenko, the President of the Russian Golf Association.
So there is accepted. The idea of secession of the Russian sport from the Russian state is absurd.
Own people the regime says: “love me a little black and white and I just love you”. For internal use away with it, but the international is not good in any way.
WADA and the Olympics
In sports its incarnation from our system to the external world requires to draw the fluffiness and whiteness, that is wants she ceased to be herself. It turns out, of course, completely inept, and can only convince a very accommodating audience.
The disappearance of such viewers, which previously always managed to find and recruit, the second component part failures. There are several reasons, but one just catches the eye.
Take, for example, China, by the will of its leaders rapidly become a sporting superpower (first place in the team competition at the Games in Beijing in 2008; the second in London in 2012). Have no idea whether the crystal clean in doping the meaning of Chinese sport, or and the Sun has spots. But, in any case, all those wishing to try the local urine which is not very long. Because, first, a superpower in every sense of the word, and secondly, is not at odds with the outside world.
Russia, unlike China and the USSR, the superpower is, Yes, also a few with whom to get along. The Soviet Union also was not a specialist to get along, but was rescued by power. The Olympics in the Soviet Union could boycott, as it happened in 1980, but to humiliate and defame doping revelations not decided or figured out how to approach this.
And another fairly obvious reason of the scandal — the fact that on the sports map Moscow put too much absurd political aspirations.
All tear beautifully!
Loading the national sport of received tasks — business as usual. But then it turned out apparent distortion. This exaggerated state of excitement itself had attracted hostile attention and made me think tripped — even more so, it was a breeze.
Summary of the counterattack on the sports front, confirmed the General rule: harass former sovereign Lavrov is possible, and to return them — not. Intrusive Imperial idea of “victory in the team event”, wrongly perceived as able to shake humanity, removed from the agenda.
Hopefully some of the Russian athletes at these Games will get. Not for their earnings suffer and certainly not for the feelings of his superiors. Only for spectators.
Sergei Selin
