Russian Doping Scandal in Olympics: Impact and Future Changes

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Olympics are leading international sporting events that feature both winter and summer sports
competition in which thousand athletes take the participation across the world. The paper is
prepared with the motive to include the discussion related to the Olympic changing moment
which can be related to the events like scandal, protest, team, and any other. The event that has
been selected for the paper includes Russian Doping Scandal in the year 2016. In addition, it
includes the background story with the motivating factors behind the event. In the end, the paper
reflects the fact that has been discussed after the investigation of any future changes due to the
Olympic moment which took place.
The Olympics are considered as commonly liked with the sporting excellence but the history of
this sports event is also littered with the precious moments of great culture, political and socio-
economic significance. In another world, it includes the changing movements of the Olympics
that have brought changes in the functions of the Olympics. The major scandals events that took
place in recent years in Olympics are related to the Russian Doping Scandal in the year 2016. In
the games of Olympics in Rio 2016, the international committee took the step top review athletes
slated to compete in the response of the allegations of widespread doping (Roberts, 2018). After
the inquiry, 271 Russian athletes were approved with the motive to compete and 116 athletes
were banned. This has been found in the research that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada)
has suggested a blanket ban for entire Russian athletes in Olympic Games in Rio. In the research,
it was found that Russia full Olympic team include 389 competitors. Out of which approx. 271
vacant to take the part by a three-person International Olympic committee panel (BBC News,
2016).

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The event happened because of the use of doping which it refers to as the use of the prohibited
drugs or method with the motive to improve the training and results of sporting by the Russian
athletes in the Olympics (BBC News, 2016). The background of the event includes the fact that
in London 2012 Olympics there was corruption on an unparalleled scale that was done by the
Russian administration and athletic establishments. They concluded to confirm that their sports
stars who take the participation in the Olympics were able to take a cocktail of disqualified
performance in improving the drugs yet avoid doping tests. The research reflects that 144-page
report by the appreciated Canadian law professor Richard McLaren on the behalf of the World-
Anti doping agency originate that more than 1,000 Russian athletes in additionally 30 sports
(BBC News, 2016). The research reflects that worked on an exceptional scale and pointed the
figure on a Russian ministry of security services, sport and the Russian anti-doping agency that
contribute in generating an recognized conspiracy across winter, summer and Paralympic sports.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that results reflect that there was a important
attack on the honesty of Olympic Games and in the sport in general. In addition to it was found
that samples were collected from the Russian athletes in the year 2012 in London. The findings
of the report include reflect over 250 doping sample from Russian athletes in the year 2014 Sochi
winter games. The motivation behind the scandal was just to win the gold and the silver medals
in the Olympic Games due to which the Russian athletes started taking drugs which contribute in
enhancing their capacity of taking the training and performing the operations. This is evident
from the medals won by the Russian in the Olympic Games which include 24 gold medals, 26
silver and 32 bronze medals (Ingle, 2016). Further the motivation was to increase the value of the
country which will increase after winning the medals in Olympics. In addition to this, it was