[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Waaahhh!-nter Olympics (WAS Sarah Hughes - from my home town!)

[Terry van Ettinger]

True, but if there were some who tested positive, they shouldn't have been
doing anything to pull them out in the first place.  If there's anyone they
need to be especially pissed at, it's the athlete(s) who failed the test.
Had the athletes not failed the test, the results they received would not
have required the use of reserves, and they would have gone on as planned,
and very possibly won their medal.  And in my opinion, it's the country's
responsibility to make sure their athletes aren't doping *before* they even
come to the Olympics to begin with.  So it sounds to me as though in that
case that the athletes should be pissed at their own country's officials for
not attending to that matter in advance.

Terry
> To be fair to the Russians not all their complaints are totally out of
order. Yes they are complaining that their athletes failed the haemoglobin
test thing for which they deserve to be smacked but what they're most pissed
off at is that they were told about the results so close to the relay event
that they couldn't get the reserves there in time and the whole team (who
were almost dead certs for the gold) had to pull out, ...