1. ABC News is complaining about the few positive dope tests in Beijing 2008. How about all these athletes who were culled out before the Olympics? (ABC News)
With four days to go before the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, only five athletes have tested positive for doping.
By comparison, 26 athletes were caught cheating at the Athens Games in 2004. And International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge had predicted that 30 to 40 athletes would fail doping tests during the 2008 Games.
To the optimists, this year's figure looks like progress.
But to the cynics -- and several anti-doping researchers -- it's an indication that the dishonest athletes may simply be getting better at avoiding detection.
2. The Globe and Mail awards their excellence in doping to the Ukraine's Liudmyla Blonska.
Kudos to Ukraine as it shoots to the top of our Excellence in Doping medals table. Its star heptathlete Liudmyla Blonska (sometimes: Lyudmila) stands to lose her her silver medal after testing positive for a steroid.
What am amazing achievement for Blonska, a supremely skilled performance-enhancer, who has been busted not once but twice. She was given a two-year international athletics ban after she was caught taking a steroid in 2003 and yet, through sheer strength of will, managed to resurrect her doping career in time for Beijing. Now that's a story worthy of an NBC athlete profile in soft focus with tinkly piano music in the background.
A few grumps have raised the question of why she was she allowed to take part in the Games. The IOC has been urged many times to ban doping cheats for life from Olympic events, but has failed to do so.
3. Not to butt in, but the Times of India asks 'Why do our athletes bring up the rear?'
Well....I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this topic?
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