Putin's Poodles--Vlad the Impaler Wins Again

The Mobsters, The Rackets, and the IOC

International sport is up to its neck in the proverbial, it would seem.  Firstly, there is the now open secret that Russia, under the direction of its government, has systematically doped up its athletes, and conspired to cover it over with faux drug testing.  The secret intelligence services have been involved, revealing just how much the Russian regime views this as a form of warfare.

Secondly, there is the widespread view that Russia, while utterly and cravenly complicit in cheating (for national "honour") is not alone, but many other nations engage systematically in doping up their athletes.  No-one appears to be challenging this as an untruth.  Then there is the Russian bribery of the International Olympic Committee to ensure the IOC sniffs just a little, and looks the other way.

As a consequence we have lost what little interest we had in the Olympics.  But grim realism acknowledges that there will be no changes of any substance.  The IOC is as corrupt as Sepp Blatter and its patron, Vlad the Impaler, it would seem.  The only thing that will bring rogue states like Russia and the IOC itself to heel is a universal "turnoff" from the Olympics, the IOC, and the Olympic "movement".

This would be very easy to do.

Douglas Wilson's Letter From Moscow

Title Nine, Schmitle Nine

Douglas Wilson
Blog&Mablog

While nobody was looking, the swells who run our international affairs effectively destroyed the entire concept of women’s athletics. We have now advanced well past the absurdity horizon, the point past which no recovery is possible without resorting to the forces of dark bigotry and reaction.

It used to be that for a male to compete as a female in the Olympics, he needed to have had the requisite surgery two years prior. That was stupid and perverse, but at least it was post-op stupid and perverse. If some guy wanted a gold medal bad enough, he had to do something drastic for a chance to get there. But now, wafting along with the zeitgeistian breezes, the intelligentsia has effectively destroyed women’s athletics everywhere.



Meet Tiffany, silver medalist in the 2016 hammer throw. Her teammates call her Bruno, but not when she is around.

This rules adjustment by the Olympic committee will make it necessary for every institution down to high school to make the same adjustments, and poof, there go all your feminist advances. Title nine, schmitle nine. And it wasn’t even done by the religious right. Of course, we conservatives are allowed to get a certain wheeze out of it, but we had nothing to do with it. Not our zoo, not our monkeys.