SHORTLY AFTER YULIA Efimova swam to victory in the 100m breaststroke Heat 5, some boos rang out in Rio’s Olympic Aquatic Centre.
Ireland’s Fiona Doyle fell just short of a place in the semi-finals after her eighth place finish and 20th overall left her 0.26 seconds outside the top 16.
The Limerick woman, who finished in 1:07.58, put herself in contention when she found herself in fourth at the turn, but fell away in the closing 50m. Efimova pulled away and won the heat in 1:05.79 – the second fastest qualifier after American Lilly King.
Doyle’s exit was made all the more heartbreaking by the presence of Efimova, who served a 16-month suspension in 2013 after testing positive for anabolic steroids.
The 24-year-old was suspended again earlier this year after testing positive for the now-banned substance meldonium, but was cleared in July.
“Cheaters are cheaters,” Doyle told the Irish Times as she held back the tears after the event.
“She (Efimova) has tested positive five times and she’s gotten away with it again. It’s like FINA keep going back on their word, and the IOC keep going back on their word.”
Efimova, the world champion at the distance, was among the 271 Russian athletes who were granted eligibility at the last minute to compete in Brazil.
Efimova successfully appealed the initial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban on all Russian competitors who had previously tested positive for doping to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
“And FINA caved in to (Vladimir) Putin, and that’s just not fair on the rest of the athletes who are clean. Who are you supposed to trust now? They have signs all over the village saying we are a clean sport, and it’s not. And I just don’t think that’s fair.”
Doyle’s Olympics are not over yet. She’ll compete in the 200m breaststroke heats later this week.
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Fair play to her, time to call a spade a spade , it’s a complete farce, a load of horseshxte ,unwatchable, a mirror image , sport imitating life, crooks covering crooks , and rewarding crookery , with the likes of Fiona, straight , decent players , just there to make up the numbers . Chin up young lady, better to wake up knowing you gave it your cleanest best shot, than with a meaningless piece of tin around your cheating neck ..
It’s awful for Fiona Doyle, although anyone who remembers the Michelle Smith story from Atlanta ’96 will wonder what Janet Evans in the US (pipped for a final place and then complaining in a press conference about Smith and drug rumours) thinks of it.
I agree but the difference here is that there are failed tests before the event
That Russian one is even more of a medicine cabinet than Smith was….
Agreed but Smyth never tested positive they said she tampered with a sample using alchohol and there was trace elements of a metabolic precursor to testosterone. One could say they really wanted her banned because of her husband but that would be seen as a conspiracy theory I am sure.
You don’t need to tamper with a sample if you’re clean. Tamper with a sample, you’re a drug cheat is my logic. They wanted to ban her because she was a drug cheat.
You miss my main point they said she tampered but couldn’t orobe it so came up with somehow tampering using alchohol. Which was faught vigorously by her at the time and is a reason for her becoming a respected barrister
That’s mad conspiracy stuff! Any proof that they contrived the tampering story…. Or that she’s a “respected” barrister?!!!!!
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory
In July 2005 she was conferred with the degree of Barrister at Law of King’s Inns, Dublin. While a student at the King’s Inns she won the highly prestigious internal Brian Walsh Moot Court competition. Her first book, Transnational Litigation: Jurisdiction and Procedure was published in 2008 by Thomson Round Hall which is respected in legal circles. Irish Independent, 16 June 2012,.
Two years after the 1996 Summer Olympics, FINA banned Smith for four years for tampering with her urine sample using alcohol.[6] She appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Her case was heard by a panel of three experienced sports lawyers, including Michael Beloff QC. Unusually for a CAS hearing, De Bruin’s case was heard in public, at her own lawyer’s request.[7] FINA submitted evidence from Dr Jordi Segura, head of the IOC-accredited laboratory in Barcelona, which said she took androstenedione, a metabolic precursor of testosterone, in the previous 10 to 12 hours before being tested. It also became known that two previous samples, taken between November 1997 and March 1998, had also shown traces of androstenedione. The CAS upheld the ban. Mitchell, Kevin (29 February 2004). “How waters rose to engulf Irish idol”. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
Not surprised she won the Moot Court Award. She had plenty of practice beforehand at defending the indefensible….
Who said she’s a respected barrister?
She may be a respected barrister but she wasn’t a respected swimmer.
And yet the three golds and bronze still stand to this day.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Efimova didn’t take up all four places between Doyle and the top 16 did she?
No, but it’s a sign of the frustrations faced by clean Olympians who have to watch competitors with a long history of doping taking up qualification spots while clean athletes who follow the rules are knocked out.
I can imagine that Doyle is merely putting words to the thoughts of many Olympians this year.
True that, a little bit of personal appraisal and a comment on standards of those on drugs would be far better. She did well to qualify, great achievement and congratulations but keep the bitterness and sour grapes for the kitchen table at home
You can bet at least 4 in the top 20 are dopers. Point is the second fastest is a proven doper.
Seriously The 42, this how you represent our competitors? She also said this had nothing to do with her performance which she said she was unhappy about but said the fault was with her. Instead she looks like she is blaming others for her own misfortune.
She wasn’t exactly “pipped at the post”, was she?
No, but she could be vocalising the thoughts of the person that was.
Avina _ No doubt that person will be vocalising their own thoughts :p
Actually ted, a massive doubt
If anything it’s easier for someone who performed poorly to speak out about drug use as it’s harder to accuse them of sour grapes than someone who only just missed out.
She wasn’t making excuses at all. The 42 decided to leave her comments about her own performance out of this article for some reason. Seems a bit disrespectful to portray her as someone just shooting her mouth off after she lost a race. She said she could have put the loss down to a lot of things but it just wasn’t her day. Kind of important information when people are accusing her of sour grapes.
Fiona, remember this. A Russian swimmer off her face on performance enhancing drugs only managed to beat you by 0.26 seconds. You are the true athlete.
The Russian women has been caught 5 times and they still cleared her to compete???
They blanket banned Russian athletes over their state-sponsored doping programme but gave an exemption to an athlete who has been previously caught 5 times for doping. I’m really struggling to find a reasoning for this which doesn’t involve corruption.
She lost fair and square… feels like a smoke screen. It’s not like she came 4th… It. Did not effect her below average result!
Ya seems like a handy excuse really
what’s handy about competing with a recidivist drug cheat ?
The easy excuse it provides if you perform s**te.
Below average? I’d like to see you or any of us swim her times. Jackass!
He was speaking relatively jane, although I do think he was being a little harsh.
It’s possible she was the fastest ‘clean’ swimmer there. Unlikely, but who knows? The olympics are tainted.
It’s equally possibly she was the slowest doped swimmer.
That’s possible too, but unlikely she’d be so vocal about it if that was the case….
Because dopers don’t lie and pretend they’re clean.
No, because dopers don’t want to see an increased focus on anti-doping measures.
Blaming others because you came last. GROW UP!!
She tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs 5 times. How is she even allowed to compete if she has been caught cheating so many times? She even managed to get the blanket ban on Russian athletes overturned for herself even though she has an extensive history of doping.
That should be sending up alarm bells with anti-corruption investigators.
And likewise Gatlin is still competing too….
Efimova tested positive 5 times since January for meldonium,the same drug Sharapova got caught for. Due to lack of studies on how long it takes to clear the system athletes have been given the all clear if they test positive before this September coming once the dose is below a certain level. Efimovas positives were below this threshold that’s why she has been cleared. It’s still a disgrace that she is allowed compete as she is blatantly cheating and doesn’t seems to care at all who knows.
It’s been on the watch list for a while and yes it was fully legal to take it because they were unsure of the performance enhancing effects. There are plenty of drugs that are legal to take and plenty of one’s that they don’t even know about and have no test for. It’s pretty hard to keep up with the dopers unfortunately :(
The Russians are bad – everything since 1945
Read up on WW2 history, some of the things that the Soviets did before and during the war were horrifying. We just don’t discuss it much as it’s hard to admit that the West worked with a government that was arguably as bad as the Nazis to defeat the Nazis.
What a bull s**t comment
Along with the Jewish people the Russian`s in WW2 suffered the most loss of life , in fact they lost more people and soldiers than the combined Allies
Without an effective Eastern Front the Allies would not have been able to land on the Normandy beaches and they certainly would not have been able to end the war
You cannot and should not class the Russians as bad , its an unfair generalisation of a people
Tony, cage duly rattled. Yes, their losses in WWII were enormous, but that does not excuse some of their evil,acts…at least, not in the real world.
As appear to the “good” acts of fire bombing Dresden and dropping atomic weapons on civilian cities……
….which by the way clearly qualifies as an “crime against humanity” which was defined by the allies after WWII to prosecute nazi’s but never prosecuted their own…..amazing
Just to be precise – it was the Soviet not just Russian people who experienced that enormous death rate (c.27m people) in WW2. The highest proportion of total population lost in Europe excluding the Soviet Union was Poland followed by Greece. Jewish people were not directly comparable, but the proportion of their total population in Europe and the Soviet Union combined who were killed or died due to the war was about 55%.
She shouldn’t have been in the competition, nobody denies that.
But Doyle wouldn’t have qualified anyway.
I don’t think she’s claiming she would have qualified if the Russian wasn’t allowed in!
She’s not but the headline is:
Heartbreak for Fiona Doyle as she falls short to Russian
It makes it sound like she was barely edged out by a cheater which she wasn’t.
Sore looser
*loser
moronic Shane
Sore spelllller!
Whether Fiona ever had a realistic chance is not the issue. She deserves to compete with clean swimmers.
@shane you are a loser at life.
As almost nobody is clean, IOC had to allow Efimova in. This is so called balance.
You’re not wrong there Wong.
Has anyone else been caught 5 times? If so it’s equally disgusting that they’re allowed to compete.
There needs to be a ‘two strikes and you’re out’ rule – allow one indiscretion for ‘carelessness’ with prescription medications etc., then a lifetime ban for the second one.
This is the only way things will change – a career-ending deterrent. Even this will not eliminate corrupt officials etc., but it would be a good start.
Druglympics.
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