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Well, I enjoyed the opening ceremony even if it had a sixties surreal quality to it and perhaps the organisers should be tested for drug abuse :)

The setting is epic of course. It's now over to our athletes to bring back some gold to replenish our reserves.

Hope the Games pass without incident; the celebration of life is a good way to start and a good way to finish.

Go GB!

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Sadly the drug cheating revelations are going to tarnish this event more than any other.

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Billions will still watch it though...

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Its not just the Olympics though. Since Armstrong's outing as a cheat it appears testing agencies have rapidly caught up to Designer PEDs that have been used for years. Top athletes are being exposed every other week and its not limited to one sport. Someone recently said every top athlete was using designer PEDs and that ranges from Premier League footballers to Olympic Athletes.

Examples:

Tyson Fury (World Champion Boxer)
Wlad Klitschko ( 10 year champion boxer)
Lamont Peterson (Champion Boxer)
Brock Lesnar (UFC and WWE megastar)
Jon Jones ( UFC champion)
Frank Mir ( UFC heavyweight)
Maria Sharapova (Tennis)
Tyson Gay (Athletics)
Yohan Blake (Athletics)

Point being as the agencies are catching up, more and more sports are being outed as completely false.

Are we watching an event of skill and talent or are we watching an event of who got their PEDs spot on?
Even from the list above, regardless of what statement the sportsperson makes, its highly likely they were doping for years on end but their high end flashy PEDs finally got caught up in a test.

Lance Armstrong was the tip of an absolutely massive iceberg that is shattering like crazy now.

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l despise cheating but we must remember that it is a minority in sport who sadly cheat so its important not to tar everybody with the same brush and the majority are clean in my opinion.

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Agreed, its impossible for anyone to point out such people and tar everyone but people still have to consider that 'clean' and haven't been caught yet are two separate things.

As far as we were aware, Maria Sharapova was clean for the past 5 years. Up until the point she just wasn't.

Russia is an entire country with state sponsored doping. It would be foolish to believe they're the only one. Its just that they're likely the biggest.

You'd find doping in athletics every other day due to stricter testing, but now you're getting stricter testing across the board for world sport with recent catchups detecting advanced designer PEDs and PED maskers. Hence high profile dominos falling such as Armstrong and Sharapova.

Either everyone scrambles to rid themselves of the need to dope or more people will be exposed. There's plenty more high profile cases to come yet.

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Indeed going on about Russia l remember East Germany where it was very much state sponsored doping for at least two decades.

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Its bad stuff either way and we're not looking too great ourselves. Since high profile name drops and the catchups, GB athletes have been deliberately missing tests. 3 of them are at Rio.

Kenya are another that were clearly running state sponsored doping.

Ireland have already lost a boxing competitor after he failed a test.

Team GB have had dopers for years but never got as far as leaking the names. All we ever knew is a specific top name and medalist provided ridiculous blood samples on 3 different occasions. This would be an indication of when Designer PEDs were masked but the blood levels showed abnormalities. Still meaning nothing could be proved even though you'd know they were guilty.

I'd hate to see an icon like Bolt fall next though but honestly, Blake and Powell both got caught so it wouldn't shock me anymore.

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Sorry in advance if inappropriate but this gem just made the front page of Reddit.

Credit to the Germans.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpONMhHWcAMobF-.jpg possibly NSFW - Light hearted laughs but still completely unfortunate timing.

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This was absolutely terrible to see this happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36999627

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Buatsi scored first Knockout win of the Olympics, GB light Heavyweight scoring a TKO win over the Ugandan in round 3.

Love Olympic Boxing, 3 rounds to put it all on the line. Only issue I see is the games of catch weight that shouldn't be happening. Got a clear middleweight that never came close to getting in at 81kg, fighting an actual 81kg when it would have been simpler to have him drop class to 69kg or actually make your weight for 75.

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Yes l must say l enjoy it too although my partner is not too keen on it.

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I wont be one of them.

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That's entirely your prerogative.

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The leg break wasn't nice and the beeb won't show it. It's on YouTube of course if you choose to look; if you're undecided, it is a nasty floppy-leg type injury.

The women's cycling is currently on with Lizzie Armitstead (who missed 3 dope tests for various reasons); what do people think about her participation?