World Anti-Drug Agency Needs Some Performance Enhancement

W.A.D.A., which had been doing nada for about four years, was finally stoked into action only after the Russian whistle-blower took his story of state-run PED use to the media.  Apparently 200 emails with explicit inside information was not enough to rouse the world's number one agency to launch any kind of investigation.

President Putin and IOC President Bach at Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony

The Russians skated through as host of the 2012 Winter Olympics, casually utilizing military counter-intelligence (FSB) agents to orchestrate the widespread switch-out of Russian athlete urine samples at every event.

Even better, the head of Russia's anti-drug program was tasked with engineering the cocktail of performance enhancing drugs administered to the Russian athletes.  Medal contenders received special consideration, of course, and lo and behold, Russian performance statistics were off the charts that year compared to the prior Olympics.

Smiles everyone, smiles!

Then they invaded Ukraine.

After far too long, Russia's reputation for institutionalized PED use finally caught up with them (again...), in large part due to a continuation of this with track and field athletes competing outside Russia.  They actually risked being totally banned from the summer Olympics, but, of course, that didn't happen.

BTW, two of the three Russian anti-drug directors, who could testify to the institutionalized drug program, somehow met with suspicious and untimely deaths.  The third, the cocktail designer referred to above, got while the gettin' was good and is cooperating.

Having shown what fine sportsmen they are (government included), the Russians are now scheduled to host the 2018 World Cup Soccer Tournament.  I'm sure everything will be on the up-and-up this time, because they've learned their lesson from all this lack of meaningful consequences.  This message is not lost on China and the rest of the world.

W.A.D.A. needs to grow a pair. 

If W.A.D.A. actually did its job right, with what Putin's puppets are doing to all their athletes, Russia would eventually be restricted from all international sports for a long time.

Of course, there's always dog shows....