Dirty OH 2012.

The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie published alarming information about the results of additional anti-doping tests from the 2012 London Olympics in late July. One of the offenders mentioned is wrestler Artur Taymazov, currently an Ossetian politician and member of the Russian parliament, who has added to the number of athletes who have had their Olympic medals additionally stripped following the WADA report. Taymazov had previously been stripped of his gold medal for a doping offence in Beijing and now he is losing gold again, this time from the London Games. It's a wonder how many athletes are willing to risk the shame and disgrace of their own sporting careers for the uncertain prospect of a podium moment under the five rings. The women's one-mile final, from August 2012, is a veritable collection of female athletes with a fierce desire to succeed. No fewer than four of them, including the gold and silver runners, have been proven to have doped, with another of them serving a current sentence for sample tampering. Clearly, some athletes, with their entourages full of doctors and chemists, have an edge over the controllers and lab technicians. Moreover, if they even have an accredited anti-doping lab on their side, they are seemingly in the clear. However, the situation is a little more hopeful given the ability to re-test archived samples. Until now, there has been an eight-year time limit for this purpose, during which athletes had to worry about losing their medals and receiving a penalty in the event of an additional positive test. The new time limit is even ten years, in which the technological and technical backlog can already be made up compared to those who cheat. Despite the fact that the number of athletes disqualified in connection with doping at the London Olympics is greater than the two previous ones (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008) combined, it is probably not fair to label the 2012 Olympics as the dirtiest in history. Testing for the presence of banned substances in an athlete's body was at a dramatically lower level in the twentieth century, even in the 1970s and 1980s, compared to today, if it took place at all. And as for the current trend, one can only note that one has to wait until ten years after the Rio de Janeiro Games (2016). Then an assessment of the level of dirt will be almost objective.