Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Canada's Olympic football team deducted six points after drone spying scandal" video.

  1. The Canadian team, the defending gold medal champions, has effectively been disqualified from the Olympics. Imagine how bad that would look if eventually it comes out that most national teams engage in similar practices. In 1988 Ben Johnson was disqualified for using a prohibited substance and Canada had a major public inquiry investigating doping in sports. But eventually we found out that almost everyone in Johnson's race had prohibited substances in their system at one time or another. And that included arrogant Carl Lewis who derided Johnson but who it turned out shouldn't have been allowed in the 1988 Olympics at all given a positive test he had but U.S. Olympic officials covered up for him. According to one source there were more than 100 American athletes who had positive tests but who still ended up being allowed to go to the Olympics where collectively they won 19 Olympic medals between 1988 and 2000. But we don't hear about those athletes - we still hear only about Ben Johnson. Yes, Johnson had to be disqualified and I can see why FIFA and the IOC feel that the Canadian soccer team needs to face some consequences even though the players seem to be completely innocent but FIFA and the IOC should think long and hard about how bad they are going to look if they severely punish the Canadian team and then it turns out later that spying on other teams has been standard practice for national teams. I'd also like FIFA and the IOC to explain why they are severely punishing Canadian players who appear to be completely innocent while taking no apparent action against Argentinian players who were guilty of a horrific racist act and while FIFA and the IOC generally show few moral standards at all. Consider that the IOC demanded that Utah officials pressure the FBI to stop an investigation into doping at the Olympics for Utah to be awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics. That indicates that the IOC has very little credibility in claiming that the Canadian Women's soccer team must be severely punished in the interest of fair play. I fear that, just as in the case of Ben Johnson, in the current case as well there will be a serious investigation into practices of Canadians but that the IOC and FIFA and other countries will make no effort to find out if the problem is occurring with many countries.
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