Suspicions of doping has brought a cloud over a plethora of events
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Athletics - Women's 100m - Round 1 - OLS - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - July 30, 2021. Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria reacts after competing in Heat 6There are still a few spots open on the Olympic Bingo Card: Disaster Edition. On Saturday, they filled another.
She made news recently, hitting out at her own national federation because several Nigerians were pre-emptively banned after insufficient drug testing. This may be what Freud called projection. American silver medalist Ryan Murphy said he was dismayed to have been in a final “that’s probably not clean.”
The larger problem is a complete lack of faith in testing. It’s difficult under the best of circumstances because, technologically, the cheaters are always ahead of the enforcers. Nobody said the word “doping,” but it hung over every question. For instance, “You came eighth at the Olympic Youth Games in 2018, and you just won the real Olympics. How do you explain that?”
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