Poland on the third place on the “list of shame” of the Winter Olympics

Two illegal measures have already been confirmed in Beijing. First, the Iranian alpine Hossein Shemshaki was caught. On Wednesday, the Ukrainian woman, Walentina Kamiñska, tested positive for mesterolone and heptaminol.

On this occasion, Dawid Brilowski, a TVP Sport journalist, calculated the number of cases of doping in individual national teams in history. And unfortunately, his conclusions regarding Poles are fatal.

Poles at the forefront of the Olympic “list of shame”

So far, three Polish sportsmen have been caught using illegal measures during the Olympic Games. The hockey player Jaros³aw Morawiecki was the first to be caught during the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. After the match against France, won by the Poles 6-2, too much testosterone and epitestosterone were detected in his body. The result of the match was verified at 0: 2 for France, and the Poles finally dropped out of the tournament after the group stage.

Another “Polish” case was the positive result of the test of Cornelia Marek during the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, who unexpectedly took 11th place in the 30-kilometer race in classic style and strongly contributed to the Polish women taking 6th place in the relay race. However, these results were canceled after EPO was detected in her body.

In Sochi, on the other hand, Daniel Zalewski was caught using illegal measures, and he replaced Michał Zblewski. Polish bobsleighists, including Zalewski, took 27th place in 2014, but phenylethylamine was found in his body. The Polish team was excluded from the games’ results.

Only two representations are worse than Poland. The biggest scandals in the background

As it turns out, in only two representations in history, more cases of illegal substances have been detected. It is not surprising that the “table of shame” is opened by the Russians, who have been repeatedly disqualified for doping. Most of the disqualifications fell during the Sochi Olympics, following the famous McLaren report, which revealed the scandal of replacing samples in laboratories to cover up doping.

The Austrians are in second place, ahead of the Poles. During the Olympic Games in Turin, illegal substances were found in the Austrian rooms, and six ski runners and biathletes were disqualified. Three cases are enough for Poles to take 3rd place on the “list of shame”. This is probably due to the fact that the majority of cases of using prohibited measures are caught even before the start of the Games.