Mark: The timing of the release of the Russian women’s 4 X 100 2008 Summer Olympic disqualification, serves to reasonably question whether the IAAF and WADA have consistently applied standards in monitoring drug cheats. None of the numerous mass media pieces reviewed, address whether ALL participants in the 2008 Olympic women’s 4 X 100 were retested. Assuming that the retested positive drug test finding remains valid and that WADA/IAAF have been consistent in their retesting, Only one of the four women on that relay team tested positive. The athlete who has been charged has taken action to contest the claim against her. The suspension of the Russian weight lifting team concerns a sport with rampant doping. The Russian weight lifting team’s receipt of Russian government funding doesn’t (without conclusive proof) necessarily mean a clandestine Kremlin approval for doping.