7 Russian female athletes were banned today by the Russian Athletic federation for manipulating doping samples.
They will now sevrve a two year ban dating back to the time of the samples, and so they will return for the world championships in Berlin in 2010. They had been provisionally suspended for 1 and a half years in July and all of them missed the Beijing Olympics, which leads me to think, with each and every athletic federation clamping down and getting tougher and tougher on this cheating.
Is it really worth it? Athletes taking this risk, getting caught and losing 2 years or more. 2 years of competition, of income, of sponsorship. You could say that even more importantly than that, the reputation of these athletes.
It may be getting to the point where Athletes may now start to think, is it really worth the risk?
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