There are circumstances in most sports where this can happen - and basketball has a way to appeal wrong decisions after the fact.
E.g. in 2007: https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3192421
There are circumstances in most sports where this can happen - and basketball has a way to appeal wrong decisions after the fact.
E.g. in 2007: https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3192421
There are circumstances in most sports where this can happen - and basketball has a way to appeal wrong decisions after the fact.
E.g. in 2007: https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3192421
Afaik they didn’t admit they were wrong. Romania says the ruling is right (obviously), the US says the ruling is wrong (obviously) and noone else really knows if the appeal was on time.
This will be a huge bitchfight between the US, Courts and Romania for years. Should be pretty entertaining
It’s not rly about the physical medal in the end, noone cares about those. You can get one that looks just like that for a few 100 bucks on ebay.
It’s about who is known as having medaled in olympia
That’s entirely possible, but they didn’t win a lot of women’s medals in disciplines like sprinting, weightlifting, cycling, throwing etc. where being doped to the gills is basically mandatory to have a chance.
I would expect them to dominate a lot more in those disciplines if the reason of good women’s performance was that they doped more succesfully than the competition (similar how we saw east Germany dominate).
Afaik they have a fairly developed system for scouting and developing women’s talent - and quite a lot of sport funding on general.
Yeah, a lot of the major nations win more women than men’s medals. Russia (2016), China, Korea, Australia, germany and the Netherlands all had more female than male medal winners the last Olympics.
There are circumstances in most sports where this can happen - and basketball has a way to appeal wrong decisions after the fact.