As a sports fan I have watched most of the stuff that comes on the telly over the years. The Olympics was always the pinnacle for me, but now I look back with some regret at the amount of time I have wasted watching cheats prosper.
I recall the great East German team who won 409 medals in the six Summer Olympics between 68 and 88 - not bad for a nation of 16 million people.
We may have suspected at the time, but now we know that their ‘success’ was entirely due to the Stasi backed, state sponsored doping scheme, A scheme incidentally that victimised the athletes, damaged their health, ruined lives and even changed the sex of some (Heidi Krieger to name but one). About 1000 ex GDR athletes recently shared a £7.2 million payout from the German government for the distress they endured with the drugs abuse they underwent in the training camps - some from the age of eight onwards.
One GDR World record that still stands is that of Marita Koch’s 400 metre run in 1985. There is no proof of wrongdoing, but jeez, just take a look at the clip on youtube, it is still … frankly astonishing.
Each year we are told that the drugs testing is improving, but each year we are also told that athletes are slipping through the net. Well now it seems not so much slipping through the net, as pouring through gaping holes.
Now we learn that the Russians have also been doping athletes on an industrial scale. Russian athletes are to be banned from competing at Rio. Wada (World Anti Doping Agency) have revealed that the Russian secret service have threatened their own testers with deportation and that customs officials have tampered with samples.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/15/russian-rio-olympic-hopes-recede-wada-report However, is this only part of the problem? On top of this other nations such as Turkey, Ukraine, Kenya, Morocco Jamaica and Spain are under suspicion. It all depends so much on the drug testing agencies from those individual countries - some are pathetically short of the required standard. And finally there are the wised up western cheats who remain one step ahead of the game, (despite fairly extensive testing) through the expertise of their unscrupulous medics.
It all makes for a bewildering concoction for sports fans to reconnoitre with. How can anyone watch the greatest show on Earth, without the absolute assurance that each and every competitor is giving a drugs free performance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD4OUTXvtRU 
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Imagine the excitement of records not only being broken but smashed to bits, athletes having fatal heart attacks during competition and of course you could run a book on who would be the first athlete to to kill themselves along with their wife and kids whilst clutching a copy of the bible.
But yeah I also doubt every single one of our athletes are clean, but unfortunately that appears to be the sport now, not how fast you can go, how high you jump, how long you throw, but what drugs you can take and get away with
That's a lot of centimetres.
Not sure there is much that can be done to restore complete confidence in either sports.
For me it's just a waste of my time watching.
A decision was made four days ago to release to WADA the samples of 35 athletes from a number of sports. Their identities had been protected as the original investigation only centred on four cyclists.
It has been incredible how passive the reaction has been to the recent scandals if bribery, dopping and match fixing in Football, cycling, cricket and athletics have been. It seems we are only at the mouth of the rabbit hole as well. Maybe the public expect the decline in scruples with the insane amounts of money involved?
What about China and their swimmers?
I remember at the London olympics they had a 16 year old female who swam a faster leg in one of the medley races than the equivalent leg time of mens gold medal winner. If that's not suspicious then nothing ever will be!