The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published a new document it’s calling the Olympic Movement Code to help prevent “competition manipulation” or cheating, beginning with this summer’s Rio Olympic Games.
The code should mostly serve as a framework for various National Olympic Committees and sporting federations to organize their own regulations defining cheating and setting up punishments for differing infractions.
“This does not prevent sports organisations from having more stringent regulations in place,” the IOC noted in its press release on the code, which calls on National Olympic Committees and sporting federations to build their own rules within the boundaries of the IOC code.
You can view the full IOC code here.
The bulk of the code spells out various violations, before then laying a spectrum of possible punishments. Included in the list of violations are:
- Betting on your own competition or a competition within your sport
- Manipulating a competition to benefit a certain team or competitor
- Accepting bribes connected to “competition manipulation”
- Using inside information on a competition to place a bet or help someone else place a bet
- Not reporting the incident to authorities if you are approached to participate in one of these violations
The IOC code also lays out an investigative process, ending with a range of punishments as light as a warning and as severe as a lifetime ban.
The IOC considers the code “unprecedented” as a document governing the Olympics as a whole (though most individual sporting federations have their own codes already established), and the code will officially take effect for this summer’s 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Attention: Jessica Hardy and Cesar Cielo
Positive drug test – Jessica Hardy
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Postive Drug Test – Cesar Cielo
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I’m assuming it’s a rhetorical question… Let’s Sun Yang to the list, don’t forget Yulia Effimova, a whole bunch of other Russian swimmers, a couple Chinese athletes, Park Tae Hwan and Alec Page and some few others that I’ve missed.
I will say, though, that Jessica Hardy did serve a suspension after she was caught.
For 2 weeks Rio will be the Xanadu of non cheating.
Elsewhere life goes on …
“You’ve painted up your lips & rolled & curled your tinted hair ,
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down,
Oh Ruuuuuby don’t take your love to town “.
And we love it . It’s not even Orwellian but Oliver Cromwell with his bible .