How about lifetime for the athlete, 4 year for the country.

Make it 20 years, but only if it proven to be a team issue and not individual.

The entire system is deeply corrupt beyond false positives.

We know for a fact that Russia was systematically cheating testing and the grand sum of the punishment they faced for it was having to compete as "Olympic Athletes from Russia" for two years.

Also randomly along the year when they are training and having to tell exacty where they are at all times (so no hiding away doping & flushing them out) , as cyclists are.

Cyclism went so bad but now they're tested really hard and often.

I don't care about the Olympics themselves (I think they're important, I am just not personally interested in catching more than highlights), but I would watch the shit out of the Dope Olympics. Dude on steroids and cocaine throwing a javelin ten miles? I'd pay to watch that.

Of course I'd also watch the Pitch-O-Mat 5000 fire balls at Wireless Joe Jackson, so I'm not anyone's target audience except possibly Futurama's from 20-odd years ago.

What was that videogame, where if they caught you hacking, they wouldn't ban you, they'd just put you in lobbies with other hackers?

Many games do that but GTA is easily the most popular/famous to do so. Though it hasn't done that in a long, long time, that is how it worked at launch. You also got a little dunce hat, so you knew you fucked up.

It would be highly unethical, but I do wonder how much faster you could go if you were allowed to take absolutely anything.

See somebody run 100m in 8 seconds before their heart explodes. Watch a man lift a whole car before he shits his entire digestive system out of his body.

Those are called the Enhanced Games.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/enhanced-games-founder-says-steroid-approved-event-future-sports-calls-out-hypocrisy-olympics

If they over-dope to compete in the dopers olympics and die as a result, that's not any different than driving without a seatbelt or motorcycling without a helmet and dying as a result. If you don't want to risk death you can just not be stupid.

Isn’t the idea of banning doping in the Olympics to deal with people using banned substances while actively competing? That is to say, even though Phelps uses weed, has he tested positive during an active competition for being on weed (or any other substance)?

What competitors do in their off time is fine as far as I’m concerned. But if they’re using right before or during actively competing, then I can see where it’s a problem. No?

Y'all know that doping usually refers to performance enhancing drugs right?

Cannabis doesn't enhance your performance in swimming.

Sort of... CBD isn't, and anyway I imagine the exclusion of cannabis won't be around much longer. There are many studies that show it has no impact on athletic performance.

I think the window for the testing is what matters more. Whatever they do off-season is their business, as long as its not in their system during training and competition

Don't ban the competition, ban doping being illegal.

The ratings would be through the roof to watch some freak with more drugs than blood run a sub 8 second 100m right before his heart explodes.