The 2008 Summer Olympic GamesBeijing, China
The Scandal Begins!: Athlete Drug Tests PHOTOGRAPHED
...UnBenoweth to the Sportsmen, their Team Managers or Agent Staffers.
I can only IMAGINE that for MOST Athletes around the World, being selected as a participant, representing your home country, in the Olympic Games of any season, is a Monumental, Career Achievement. MANY Athletes train and compete for years, adding up to the culmination of their Once-In-A-Lifetime selection to aid their respective teams to Victory. Unfortunately, this plight, in the past, has added a great deal of pressure upon Sportsmen to take Steroids and other body and energy increasing drugs. In due part, officials of quite a few Major competitions ENFORCE random drug testing amongst the athletic participants. Though, for the innocent, who work their body mass naturally, this can be an irritating and 'Unfair' process.
HOWEVER, whats even more UNFAIR and HUMILIATING, I May Add, is the FACT that prior to yesterdays Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, quite a few athletes were filmed and photographed, giving their urine samples to Olympic, testing officials. These athletes were stripped naked and forced to urine into clear valves. Im unsure as to whether or not this is standard procedure; whereas the photos were simply leaked to the press, or if the photos were intentionally sold.
Its just quite ODD that the athletes are Completely XXXposed, and the proctor's face is blurred for Privacy. This entire practice, as far as Im concerned, is a HUGE INVASION of PRIVACY, and heads ought to ROLL as Consequence.
BEIJING, CHINA
Athlete Drug Testing Procedures XPOSED; Publicly!
I WONDER How the Olympic Council will TRY and SPIN this One...'Life Without Photographs are Moments that Never Happened'[Xem; August, 2007]
13 comments:
Total evasion of privacy, but not so much if the athelete was aware of it.
They probably photograph to prove that it's the actual person in the event they try to dispute if they are found dirty.
I don't know if you've ever had to be drug tested for a job, but the process is kind of invasive. It is made that way, so that a drug user cannot switch urine or put something in his/her urine to skew the testing in the negative direction.
Because of this, I'm not surprised that they were required to strip naked in front of an "audience" or that the photos were taken. What I am surprised about is that they photos were leaked. Someone is in BIG trouble. Good for us who get to see though. Tee hee hee. :-D
Wow! I think it's wrong very wrong on so many levels.
there are simple easy ways to test for substances in the blood that allow folks to maintain their dignity. look, if i would have been naked, everybody in the room would have been naked too-administrator, photographer, door man, every damn body!
We do random drug testing at my job. I can understand the fear of possible switching of urine samples, but I don't understand the stripping down naked. It is humiliating, in my mine. Plus, it looks as if someone was just trying to get a cheap thrill.
Question, was only black folks made to do the naked thing, or is we just the people we decided to focus on in this blog.
I can't pee with someone looking, so they'd never get piss out of me.
One: I wish people would get it through their heads that it's in China. Different culture, different ideals. China wants to put a positive image on the whole event, 100%, at all costs. It's socialism at its best. If it requires stripping athletes naked for drug testing, so be it, and they won't see anything wrong with it.
Two: Olympic Games are conducted and conform to local laws, not international. So this could be a common procedure in China (minus the leaked photographs, I'm sure), and who's gonna bitch about it? The IOC did give the Games to China...
Three: We can't blame them for invasion of privacy, unfairness, or humiliation when it's probably western medias that leak these pictures. Plus I'm reading it on American blog. So yeah. lol.
Let me clarify before people raise eyebrows, "Olympic Games follow local laws? since when?"
Sports rules are obviously governed by IOC, and so are a limited number of Olympic traditions, like how Greece would enter first, and host country last in the parade; the medal design on the observe side, as well as material, weight, and size; likewise for the torch;
Everything else is left to follow local laws. For instance, their huge venues don't have isolated fire escapes, because local building codes don't mandate them. Pray for no fire! And look at the hazy air. But the gov't says it's clean enough, so it is!
Oh well. It's too late to change country now. :)
I agree with you. If the athletes are aware that they are filmed and photgraphed tthat they themselves have not expressed an opposition.
Anyway, until they figure it out I'll enjoy the role as the voyerist.
Um, nice pics...total invasion of privacy though, but yea, super nice pics.
yeah, I don't think they should have to strip down naked for a piss test, but hey this world is crazy anyway. It's nothing that truly suprises me anymore.
What I have found out since the last time I was in here was that the reason why the athletes were made to strip nake is because there is a devise made up, which looks like a penis and can despense hidden urine. In order to bypass this, they make them get butt naked. At least, that is what I was told.
So I'm not really sure if these pictures were taken in China or the country from where these athletes are from.
OMG!!!! How embarassing! And they small!!!!
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