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Yeah but I don't agree with that. If they are clean and are as good enough to qualify, then it makes a great race for the spectator. The competitors lining up along side them should accept that they are testing themselves against the actual best. I don't agree with cheating but beating Gatlin would surely be sweet if you were racing against him.

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That's just like saying if someone isn't robbing a bank at the time then that's fine; they're not a bank robber when they've done it twice in the past. We probably have a different view of sport; for me 2 strikes maximum and you're out for cheats. I would rather see Bolt race against athletes who have never been convicted of cheating.

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Well no that can't be the same thing. If you believe most people in the Olympics are drug cheats then Gatlin must be among his peers then? Who's to say Bolt won't be found guilty of it sometime soon? I believe that the suspicion of how much PED use is in sport s s bit over blown. Maybe I'm being naive but it's definitely more fun to think of it as actually competitive than a bunch of cheats pretending to be better than what they are.

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Yes, you are being naive I think. It's absolutely rife in some sports - the main ones at the Olympics and the main nations in the frame for medals - but not in others where it doesn't give as much of an advantage.

As Phelps said about the Russian swimmer (by extension Gatlin) - Michael Phelps traded on swimming invincibility to assert moral authority, also diplomatic immunity. Contemplating the appearance of Russia's Yulia Efimova in the womens 100 metres breast-stroke final, he said: "I believe sports should be clean. It should be on a level playing field. To have somebody test positive not just once but twice ... and still have the opportunity to swim at these Games, it breaks my heart."

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and what's with sports than only a few countries play? e.g Rugby Sevens

and Tendulkar wants Cricket to be included in 2024? no!

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I suspect it's because Rio is warmer than most other Olympics and Aussies are more acclimatised to such conditions.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rugby_union_playing_countries

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Where did the women's rugby seven team players come from?

So any country, rugby playing or not, could have done exactly the same.

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It probably helps that almost 100 pct of Aussies would know exactly what rugby is, including the difference between league and union. IE: Everyone here particularly sporting people including women would be familiar with it. Then they only have to measure themselves against the Kiwis basically, to know they will be world competitive.

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I'm really not a big fan of sevens rugby but I did quite enjoy the olympic tournament

Well done Fiji

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GBR now 3rd in the medals!! the aussies must be spewing!:rofl:

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Great who? Its hard to spew when the world is still laughing about the record Fiji loss. :)

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where did we come again?

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In the womens? No idea. No care.

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Japan 5th with a team of just 60. South Korea done well too. Means more than the pretty obvious math that USA etc will always end up top with huge teams. Australia, really need to polish up on how to be less mouthy,whingey, ungracious, on the world stage. A medal in that is a long way off,