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    https://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004420

     

    Summary: The Summer Olympics (0.49%) have nearly double the percentage of reported doping cases as the Winter Olympics (0.28%). Athens 2004 was the most doped Olympics with 26 reported violations of anti-doping rules. Weightlifting is the most doped sport with 36 violations - 28.4% of all Olympic doping cases. Austria has the most doping violations in the Olympics (10) followed by Greece and Russia (tied for second with nine) and then the USA with eight. The four Olympic doping charts below were compiled from over 20 sources and provide a handy summary of doping in the Olympic Games from 1968-2010.

    The number of doping cases reported refers to the number of positive tests found by the International Olympic Committee and the WADA-accredited laboratory run by anti-doping scientists from multiple countries. Athletes who tested positive for banned substances prior to the Olympics and were not allowed to compete are not included in these numbers. For example, WADA President John Fahey announced that at least 107 athletes who play Summer Olympic sports were sanctioned for doping in the six months leading up to the London Olympics, making them ineligible to compete.

     

    Granted this information does not include the last two Olympics. 

     

     

    Another interesting read:

     

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientific-american-guide-to-cheating-in-the-olympics/

    Well, yes and…not really. One the one hand, WADA-accredited labs processed an astounding 186,073 blood and urine samples in 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available. Slightly less than 1 percent of those came back with an “adverse” or “atypical” finding, jargon for a positive or suspicious result. That translates into a large number of positive tests—but contrast that figure with the 29 percent of athletes at a major international meet who, when promised anonymity by researchers, admitted to using PEDs. Clearly, plenty of cheaters are getting away with it.


    One reason is that the dopers remain about five to 10 years ahead of the testers. Consider the example of recombinant erythropoietin, or EPO, a potent hormone that boosts red blood cell count (and, thus, aerobic endurance). The drug had been in use for more than a decade before a reliable test was introduced in 2000, at the Sydney Olympics. Yet tests, clearly, have not stopped its use. In 2014 57 athletes tested positive for EPO, according to WADA. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests it may be far more pervasive; because the drug only remains in the athlete’s system for a matter of hours, low doses are very difficult to detect.

     

     

     

     

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    I'm dumbfounded. I like him, but that is a stuppppid contract. We tripled his pay? For four years?!?!? Jesus. If we really felt he needed a new one, why not 1.1 million, for 2 years? I don't get the money or the years. The Red Wings love guys with "intangibles", and apparently we are just going to load up on those guys and ignore the little thing called the "scoreboard".

    For the record I LIKE Luke too.

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    Very little checking, very little intensity. I don't get it. We didn't set the tone, we did the typical passive Red Wings game plan, "don't make any mistakes, wait for them to" the problem is we don't capitalize. We should be slinging the puck constantly at their net and crashing it. Go for scoring 5, not for winning 2-1. We don't win those games.

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    Pretty much all the changes I wished for happened other than Mantha being up.

    I really want our guys to be ready next game, but there is a line of keeping emotions in check and not getting bullied. Smart this evening, but at the end there we should have kicked their you know what for going after Z at the end. Refs aren't going to protect us, and that pathetic point where Abby wasn't trying to fight and the ref was shrugging him off was a joke.

    I'd really like some protection there at the end for the guys. Abby being expected to fight everyone is ridiculous. Kronwall was beyond pathetic getting over there to help. Just tie someone up there! Smith seems like he will assist in that regard, and I hope some of other guys will step up when the heat is on.

    Nyquist needs to learn from Dats how to throw his weight around. He had a good game, and I appreciate the checking...ahem, attempts, but he needs some work on that.

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    After yesterday:

    Frustrated on a lot of levels. All the veterans keep talking about "controlling our emotions". The only real emotional penalty I saw that mattered was the Abby one where he got squeezed into boards and retaliated. The vets and Blashill are sitting in the living room having dinner while the house burns, and keep telling everyone else, "sit down, don't worry, the fire department will put it out".

    We need some fire. Dats is the only veteran who is useful. He still has the skills, he still has the fire, and he is the only one who puts a decent hit on them. Kronwall is useless. Z is useless. E is useless and won't throw his size around. Tampa will try to goon it up in game 3, we better bring some size.

    The team is too passive. They should be trying to score every possession and never sit back. They can't. The D gets picked apart. I'd rather try to score 5 than try to win 2-1. We aren't going to be able to.

    Mantha needs to be up. Smith needs to be up. This team needs to be balls to the wall. This passiveness reminds me of the Pistons when it all fell apart. They thought they could flip the switch, and they would wait all game for it, and then it would be too little too late.

    Howard was out of position far too much. Too many times he was saved by a dman or them missing the net. Need a goalie change the rest of the series.