Russia – Too Much K?

Russia was using FSB Agents to fix doping tests at Sochi:

Dozens of Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including at least 15 medal winners, were part of a state-run doping program, meticulously planned for years to ensure dominance at the Games, according to the director of the country’s antidoping laboratory at the time.

The director, Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the laboratory that handled testing for thousands of Olympians, said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor and provided to dozens of Russian athletes, helping to facilitate one of the most elaborate — and successful — doping ploys in sports history…

In a dark-of-night operation, Russian antidoping experts and members of the intelligence service surreptitiously replaced urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier, somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper-proof bottles that are the standard at international competitions, Dr. Rodchenkov said. For hours each night, they worked in a shadow laboratory lit by a single lamp, passing bottles of urine through a hand-size hole in the wall, to be ready for testing the next day, he said.

The real kicker is this guy knew how the game was played, and when the story broke he got out of Dodge. His two confederates, who stayed, are both dead:

After the report came out, Dr. Rodchenkov said, Russian officials forced him to resign. Fearing for his safety, he moved to Los Angeles, with the help of Mr. Fogel.

Back in Russia, two of Dr. Rodchenkov’s close colleagues died unexpectedly in February, within weeks of each other; both were former antidoping officials, one who resigned soon after Dr. Rodchenkov fled the country.

One heart attack, one unknown:

A former director of the disgraced Russian antidoping agency has died unexpectedly, a state news agency reported Monday, becoming the second former top official of the agency to die this month.

The former executive, Nikita Kamayev, apparently had a heart attack…

“He never complained about heart problems, at least to me,” said the official, Ramil Khabriev. “Maybe his wife knew about such problems…”

The agency’s founding chairman, Vyacheslav Sinev, died Feb. 3, according to a statement from the agency, known by its acronym Rusada. It did not give a cause of death.

It is a sign that Russia would make a dangerous enemy. If they would do this to their own people over some silly sports games, the people calling the shots there have the mentality that would allow the use of biological or radiological weapons on us in a war, in a heart beat. In our current rabbitized state, I could see Obama announcing that we would endure the depopulation, rather than stoop to the level of the people who made Americans extinct, and strike back. I am not sure there would be enough of an uproar from the population to overturn the decision.

It is enough to make you tremble, given the upheaval that is coming, and the need for real leaders whose will to win is enough by itself to keep enemies in check.

Truly, the only hope for the west is the Apocalypse.