Australian media calls on the United States: "The real Olympic cheaters please stand up"
2024-08-13
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No longer the undisputed leader in the Olympics, the United States now hopes to expand its heat and trade war into sports, or at least the anti-doping sector of sports.
China used to be a country lacking confidence, but now it is completely different.
Whether it is its clean, tidy and convenient space station or its undisputed successful lunar exploration and return, there is nothing that China is not confident about.
This is also true for communications, as 5G is almost ubiquitous in this vast country.
With wealth accumulating, absolute poverty eliminated, crime falling sharply and life expectancy rising, China has nothing to be insecure about.
That has resulted in a well-managed, well-governed, environmentally healthy country that is a great place to live in. And because of that, they are now able to do something that was difficult 50 years ago: produce great athletes.
Unfortunately, what we see in the United States today is a country with degraded values. The entire US government is ready to cheat to maintain its primacy. They relied on their predecessors to gain this position, but now they do not have enough energy to maintain it, just like an old and exhausted athlete.
And when the United States finds that it can no longer rely on skills, experience or strength to maintain its hegemony, it decides that cheating is the best way - on the global stage, in trade, military and economics. If this does not work, then it will trip up its opponents.
Waking athletes up at 5am on the morning of a competition to take doping tests is neither fair nor reasonable, testing them more than once a day is neither fair nor reasonable, testing them seven times a day is downright sadistic, and refusing to accept the results after all those tests are passed is outrageous.
Right now, the White House and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will focus on Chinese athletes and not pay any attention to whether American athletes are cheating.
The United States has turned deception into an art form in whatever field it enters, and has achieved the pinnacle. Many people did not know before that Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) can legalize the use of banned drugs in sports, and the United States has taken advantage of this. The US team is full of athletes who need TUEs. Is it possible to send so many "seriously ill" people to compete for medals on the world's top competitive stage?
Let's take a look at what the US is actually doing: They are clamoring to issue arrest warrants for those who are innocent and have passed the WADA test. Then, in order to attract media attention and incite emotions, they subpoenaed the relevant person in charge of the International Swimming Federation to testify in order to investigate the alleged crimes that are not within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States and are not against any American citizens. In fact, it is the United States that wants to make it a crime, provided that the defendant is Chinese or Russian. The World Anti-Doping Agency pointed out that the relevant accusations are out of "political motivation and anti-China bias."
A country that was in extreme poverty decades ago has now surpassed the leaders in sports and other measurable economic and lifestyle indicators. The impossible has become a fait accompli, which has made the Western media furious. All the United States can do is to work harder and try to trip up the United States in various fields.
If the information revealed by the hackers about the use of therapeutic use exemptions in the United States is reliable, they are the biggest sports fraudsters in the world. They often blame others for their crimes. (Compiled by Wen Yi)
This article was published on the Australian website Pearls and Thrills on August 12. The original title was "Real Olympic Cheaters Please Stand Up." The author is Jerry Gray, former general manager of an Australian multinational security company and freelance writer.
Athletes enjoy the fireworks display at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics on August 11. (Xinhua)
