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morphballganon , to world in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia call for Venezuela to release full vote tallies

Let’s do this after the US election too, with special emphasis on counties controlled by the pound-the-table (or couch) party.

Corvid ,

The US already does this

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nekandro OP , to worldnews in US lawmakers threaten cuts to Olympic anti-doping funds

Friendly reminder that China has one of the lowest positive WADA doping test rates in the world. The US tests positive at more than 5x that rate. India tests positive at more than 15x that rate. Russia tests positive at a similar rate as the US.

The US just can’t accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn’t biased towards Americans. We know that 6.5 to 9.2% of US athletes are doping, anyway: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11102888/

But sure, those 6.5% to 9.2% of US athletes are all acting on their own and there’s no system in place to encourage doping (as if the fact that almost 1 in 10 US athletes get away with doping isn’t a system to encourage it).

acosmichippo ,
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so are we just gonna ignore that cannabinoids are included in this.

nekandro OP ,

Flagrant violation of the rules knowing that the US national agencies won’t give a fuck. The rules themselves might be questionable (but really, cannabinoids are still illegal in most of the world…), but it demonstrates that US athletes feel like they can basically ignore the rules because nobody will enforce them.

acosmichippo ,
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well when half or more of the people who admitted to using PEDs were using cannabinoids it certainly cuts into your argument that there’s a wide ranging conspiracy across dozens of disciplines to encourage doping.

naturalgasbad ,

You’re barking up the wrong tree with this one. The real story is the number of US Olympians that have TUEs that coincidentally are performance enhancers and the relative lack of TUEs for other countries’ Olympians (e.g., China).

notceps ,

Alright mini rant here because reasons but

The US just can’t accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn’t biased towards Americans.

It quite literally is though I think the best example of this is currently Wesley Kitts who was popped with methylhexaneamine, basically amphetimes, and got caught. Now they say ‘Well he didn’t want to compete and did those drugs recreationally so we will only allow a suspension for one month’ which went from July 3 to August 3, weightlifting competition starts on the 10th which is really really really opportune timing. Now before you bring anything up let me again say this:

He got popped for a competition that was mandatory for qualification for the olympics. He weighed in. He really wanted to compete and got popped. And even if he didn’t attempt to stimulants like this provide more blood to skeletal muscle which in turn helps build muscle mass and this drug can and has been used to mask other performance-enhancing drugs.

The USA is getting special treatment but they are not getting enough special treatment it seems. Like they pulled this shit for a weightlifter that the last time around came 8th in his weightclass. Absolutely embarrassing show at the very least by the US weightlifting team but watching commentary on swimming, tennis and the newest ‘boxing scandal’ the USA should be heavily penalized but they won’t.

sandbox ,

While China’s WADA positive test rate is indeed low, it’s higher than the Chinese anti-doping agency (CHINADA) positive test rate, by quite a significant amount, which may suggest that the national agency aren’t policing doping as closely as WADA. The USA’s national anti-doping agency (USADA) has a higher positive test rate than WADA’s, again, by quite a significant amount. Additionally, WADA has significantly higher sample rate in the US compared to the sample rate in China - despite the fact that CHINADA has a much higher sample rate than USADA.

My point isn’t that the US is better or more honest at handling doping than China, just that the analysis of doping test rates has quite a lot of variance, and it’s difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from them.

nekandro OP ,

I’ve been looking at this data for reference:

wada-ama.org/…/2021_anti-doping_testing_figures_e…

Where do you get your claims?

Either way, as another guy pointed out US athletes have a really quite absurdly high rate of TUEs. Maybe that’s just because the average American is unhealthy, maybe that’s just because the US healthcare system catches more of those things, but it’s still odd that those athletes coincidentally take performance-enhancing drugs as medication for their medical condition. It’s also odd how low the TUE rate is in other countries in comparison - WADA seems more willing to approve requests from the US, which maybe explains part of the discrepancy.

sandbox ,

Slightly more recent version of the same document, as well as the ADRV report

wada-ama.org/…/2022_anti-doping_testing_figures_e…

www.wada-ama.org/sites/…/2020_adrv_report.pdf

filoria ,

Global positive test rate is 0.67%. 25% of those are “legal” (~250). Of the illegal ones, 25 Chinese, 57 Americans, 135 Russians.

The Beijing lab reported 25 AAFs, for a 0.23% positive test rate over 10326 tests. The LA and SLC labs together reported 153 AAFs, for a 1.54% positive test rate over 9904 tests. So… Eh? Isn’t this the opposite result being claimed? The US is able to run interference for a good proportion of their AAFs by claiming “medical reasons” and other bullshit.

sandbox ,

I feel that that it’s very difficult to formulate any real statistically significant findings from this data because you’d need way more information than we have available to us from the WADA report, personally. Your point that China has a very low rate is completely fair, and I agree with you on that, but there are just so many variables in the mix and the sample sizes are so low, I’d be uncomfortable in making a real conclusion with the data available - all you can really do is point to correlations.

I’m not arguing with you or saying you’re wrong or anything, just to be clear - just saying it’s really messy and complex. And I agree that the US is broadly pushing sinophobic propaganda as per usual.

veritetw , to world in Canadian warship passes through Taiwan Strait, drawing China's ire

If US is being serious, it should establish a military base in Taiwan – unless US just treat TW as the next Ukraine.

Note the fact that US never grant TW statehood nor independence. Taiwan is the only pitiful political entity in first island chain that has no US military base, the cost of which TW will be happily to pay.

TW has been buying US weaponry since WWII. But most purchases delayed, outdated or undelivered.

assassin_aragorn , to world in Iran, its proxies will meet to discuss retaliation against Israel, say sources

I’m a bit surprised that Iran would plan an open retaliation for this, since they don’t typically officially acknowledge their proxies.

This does risk a full on war between Israel and Iran however if Iran is going to give up all pretenses.

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston , to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections

There’s no fraud, the winner is Edmundo and Maduro lost the elections.

The evidence is missing because the electoral council does not want to release the tallies of the polling system.

The fact that he was declared the winner is why we need to fight as he was not elected by popular vote but maintained in power by the military who’s all in the drugs business.

kbal , to nottheonion in Pineapple Pizza insulta fly over Italian - Hong Kong fencing final
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Do Italians actually care about putting pineapple on pizza? I thought that was just Americans.

troyunrau ,
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Ironically, pineapple on pizza is a Canadian thing. Even the name “Hawaiian” pizza originates from Canada.

glimse ,

I swear it’s just the terminally online that go into a rage over it.

Gsus4 , (edited ) to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections

So he’s hiding behind Maduro’s cyberattack claims used to justify the complete lack of transparency and fudged election percentages published. Ok, I wonder how long they will be able to keep appearances, since Maduro isn’t anymore.

Spacehooks , to world in Canadian warship passes through Taiwan Strait, drawing China's ire

Attack the candians and learn that the red maple leaf is not red because of autumn.

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
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As a Canadian I would love to see a chinese ship getting pelted with a volley of supersonic hockey pucks and maple syrup containers.

Moobythegoldensock , to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections

The Mexican president said earlier this week he would wait for Venezuela’s election results to be reported fully before he recognized a winner.

^^ This is a much more accurate description of the situation. Mexico isn’t explicitly backing Venezuela’s regime, it’s refusing to take sides.

cecinestpasunbot ,

AMLO is explicitly rejecting the idea that there is evidence of fraud which is what the article is about. The title is accurate even if AMLO is not taking sides.

FlyingSquid , to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections
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Oh good, Claudia Sheinbaum isn’t in power yet. I really didn’t want to think that came from her.

marcos , to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections

WTF is that title? Completely opposite of the article claiming there’s no evidence the result is honest.

cecinestpasunbot ,

What are you talking about? It’s not the opposite at all. The short article just states that AMLO said that there was no evidence of fraud and that he’ll wait until the full vote tallies are released before commenting. That’s basically exactly what the title says.

Taiatari , to world in Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections
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No evidence of fair play either then?

Gsus4 , (edited )

No evidence of the CNE even, they are MIA. Maybe their paper records and their brains got hacked too.

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