Deadpool wrote:
What I'm looking forward to

Hockey
The US kicking ass

and that's about it

Russian ice hockey player Svetlana Terenteva became the first athlete to test positive at the Vancouver Olympics but escaped a ban as she took the substance before the Olympic period.
Terenteva used a light stimulant contained in an over-the-counter nose spray that is not banned in out-of-competition tests but was still in her body when tested in Vancouver ahead of the February 12-28 Games, IOC Vice President Thomas Bach said.
The IOC said in a statement she had tested positive for tuaminoheptane, a prohibited substance `in competition' but not `out of competition' on February 6 in a urine sample.

"During the hearing, the athlete admitted that she had used Rhinofluimucil under prescription to cure a bad head cold in January, but that she had stopped using it on February 4 2010, as she knew the substance would be prohibited during the period of the Olympic Games, starting on February 4 2010," it said.

The IOC said the prohibited substance would not have affected her performance as it would have been completely out of her system by the time of her team's first game on February 14.

This is her first anti-doping rule violation. "This makes this case very special because she took it outside the period of the Games but it was still in the body during the Games period.

She was very open and cooperative at the end of the disciplinary commission, (and said) that there was a violation of the rules," Bach said.

Bach said the commission chose to reprimand the athlete, considering it a "very special case".

"With regard to the consequences we thought that it would be fair to issue a reprimand for this special case rather than sending the athlete home and disqualifying her which seemed too severe in this very special case," he said.

CrueTrue wrote:
So, is there any reason why no one mentioned that 30-40 athletes have been prevented from participating due to irregular blood values?

I couldn't care less about the Winter Olympics, but I thought that it was a pretty big deal...

schleck93 wrote:


With all due respect, Canada, Russia and Sweden are above USA and Finland, though they can make it to the semifinals I just don't see them winning.

Isso: People in Vancouver may not be aware of anything else than the Ice Hockey happenning, but damn people over there is crying about the major road trip the Vancouver Canucks are on now

doddy13 wrote:
Nodar Kumaritashvili (Georgian luger) dies after a crash on the course at 95mph.

RIP. That will put a shadow over everything, so sad.

doddy13 wrote:
apparently the organisers have been limiting other nations time on the courses A LOT, whilst giving Canadian athletes plenty of time to practice, and to some countries, even DENIED athletes access to the facilities.

This is against IOC rules of course...