10. USA mass doping cover up

Official confirmation of coverup. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/11/05/olympics/gold-1964-tokyo-games-set-cassell-life-path/

Marknesop:

Before the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney even started, Dr. Wade Exum – former director of the US Olympic Committee’s (USCOC) drug-testing program – announced that more than half of all US athletes caught doping prior to the Atlanta games (1996) suffered no penalty whatever and were permitted to compete at those games, where some of them won medals. At the time, ally Australia’s opinion of America’s drug-testing efforts was decidedly negative.

“We in Australia have been less than impressed with the efforts in America, and if you were to do a survey of the athletes, they’ll tell you the country that’s the major problem.”

John Coates, who was head of the Australian Olympic Commission in 2000 for the Sydney Olympics and who said at the time that America was the problem with doping in Olympic sport, and who is now a Vice-President of the IOC. Like Don Catlin, who was head of the UCLA Lab in Los Angeles for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and still is. Arnold Beckett. He appeared in the LA Times article, 10 years after the fact, which reported there was a massive cover-up of doping results in the 1984 OIympics, including a break-in to the hotel room of the head of the IOC Medical section, in which records were stolen and presumably destroyed which made it impossible to know who were the 9 positives identified in the last two days of the games. It occurs to me now that Don Catlin probably knew who they were, since the UCLA Lab identified them all, although he afterward affected to be baffled why something wasn’t done. Arnold Beckett (a) was very much still an active part of the IOC Medical Commission at the time of the 1984 Olympics and was in a position to reliably report what took place from an insider’s viewpoint, and (b) was certainly no defender of drug cheating at the time, although he was a realist who argued for athletes who had taken some over-the-counter cold remedy, possibly by accident.