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Russia’s use of state-sponsored doping to try to resurrect the glory of Soviet athletics has backfired, with its track and field athletes becoming the first entire team ever banned from the Olympics.
But Russia isn’t the only country in the region to go into overdrive on performance-enhancing drugs. This kind of cheating is rampant across the former Soviet Union.
All four of the Kazakh gold-medal winners in weightlifting at the 2012 Olympics were stripped of their titles for doping this month, turning the country’s elation into international humiliation. And one of the four, Ilya Ilyin, has also failed …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
