At the just-opened Tokyo Olympics, there was a special team that did not have a national flag, and there was no national anthem for the award when they won the championship, but a fragment of the famous composer Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which was the Russian Olympic team.
(Russian Olympic Team)
In December 2014, a documentary called "Drug Clearance: How Russia Made Its Champions" came to the attention of WADA, the world anti-doping agency, which revealed that the Russian Athletics Association had a doping system in which officials to coaches to athletes were using doping in an organized, organized and planned manner, so WADA began an investigation into Russian track and field athletes. After a five-year investigation, in December 2019, the International Olympic Committee and WADA announced a four-year ban on Russia, and even though after appeal, the ban was reduced from four years to two and a half years, but Russia was still unable to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, and because of this, there was such a special team mentioned at the beginning of the article, they represented not their own countries and regions, but represented the Olympic Committee of their own country, which also meant that the Russian national anthem "Russia, "Our Sacred Motherland" could not be played on the field of this Tokyo Olympic Games.
(Drug Ban Secret: How Russia Made Its Champions)
This embarrassing situation will undoubtedly remind us of Sun Yang, a Chinese swimmer who also missed the Olympic Games. In September 2018, FINA conducted a surprise doping inspection of Sun Yang, a Chinese swimmer, with reference to Articles 2.4 and 5.4 of the World Anti-Doping Regulations and the corresponding 35 Articles of the China Anti-Doping Regulations: "Inspectors shall present doping inspection certificates when performing their doping inspection duties; when collecting samples from athletes, they shall also present a one-time doping inspection authorization issued in accordance with the doping inspection rules." "The personnel involved in the test that night did not have relevant authorization and qualifications, so Sun Yang refused to let the tester take away the blood sample that had been sampled, on the incident, on November 19, 2018, FINA held a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland, after a series of evidence cross-examination, in January 2019, FINA announced that the inspection of Sun Yang did not violate the World Anti-Doping Regulations, but on March 12, 2019, WADA was dissatisfied with the verdict and appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, after a 12-hour hearing, On February 28, 2020, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that Sun Yang was banned for eight years, and after a series of appeals and appeals, Sun Yang was finally banned for four years and three months, which was undoubtedly extremely unfair to Sun Yang.
(Sun Yang, a famous athlete in China)
Look at other famous doping events in the history of sports and the Olympic Games. American athlete Benjamin Sinclair Johnson won the gold medal in the Flying Man Battle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics while setting a new world record of 9.79 seconds in the 100m, and on September 26, the Canadian delegation received a letter from the International Olympic Committee informing Johnson of a positive urine test. Then, after completing a series of necessary procedures, it was decided to disqualify Johnson on September 27, and finally banned Johnson for life, so that Johnson got the punishment he deserved.
(Benjamin Sinclair Johnson at the Seoul Olympics)
Also a famous American cyclist Lance Armstrong, in violation of the doping regulations, with the assistance of professional doctors to use doping in a planned and purposeful way to improve his own racing results, won seven Championships in the Tour de France, creating a world-renowned result, in his career, he has been entangled with the anti-doping agency, but the anti-doping agency has not been able to obtain substantial evidence of Armstrong under a complete procedure, As a result, no conclusions were announced about the investigation into Lance Armstrong. In October 2012, Armstrong dropped his complaint against the anti-doping agency charges, thus being stripped of the title of seven-time Tour de France. At that time, there was a world uproar, and American cycling fans and athletes also launched a fund to support Armstrong because of their dissatisfaction with anti-doping agencies and support for Armstrong. Finally, under pressure, in an interview on January 14, 2013, Armstrong personally admitted that his systematic use of banned drugs to improve his performance betrayed the trust of all cycling fans and fellow athletes who believed in him, and finally received the punishment he deserved.
(Lance Armstrong admitted to using banned drugs in live))
In these four famous doping incidents, the anti-doping agency was unable to defeat Armstrong's defense and punished him in the absence of evidence; Johnson got the punishment he deserved when the procedures were complete and the evidence was complete; the Russian athletes changed their appearance, not on behalf of Russia but on behalf of the Russian Olympic Committee and still participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games; and our athlete Sun Yang was banned for four years and three months without serious procedural flaws, and even THEA admitted that he did not violate the World Anti-Doping Regulations. This undoubtedly makes all sports fans even more dissatisfied.
From the perspective of rules and the rule of law, the justice of procedure is equally important as the justice of the result, and the due process can get the correct result, and the improper procedure that is used and distorted by the person with the heart can never find the truth of the event, nor can it come to a correct and just result. The Olympic Games itself is to be faster, higher, stronger, more united, the Olympic spirit also encourages athletes to compete fairly, improve themselves, break through the limit, anti-doping is to make sports competition more fair and open, to promote athletes to rely on their own talent, hard work, sweat, will to break through themselves, challenge the limit. Anti-doping itself is a just purpose, but once its testing process is distorted, it becomes a "weapon" for people with ulterior motives to suppress opponents and eliminate competitors, and hereby calls on the World Anti-Doping Agency to summarize its mistakes, revise the World Anti-Doping Regulations, clarify the relevant doping sampling procedures and testing procedures, and increase the compensation for unjust athletes, the punishment of derelict samplers and testers, and strictly implement them, treat them equally, and bring the true Olympic spirit to the world audience. Bring real fairness and justice to athletes.
(Themis, the goddess of rule justice in ancient Greek mythology)