Talk:Nadiya Tkachenko

1978 ban originally for life?
I have removed the claim (which I myself had added) that her 1978 ban was originally for life, and the insinuation that it was some by underhand favouritism that the IAAF reduced it to 18 months on appeal. There are two sources that support this claim...: ...but citations I have added from the IAAF in Olympic Review issues 134 and 140 indicate that it was standard practice of the time: issue an initial ban for a minimum 18 months and decide in the interim whether to extend it or let it end after the minimum. So, while it would be true to say the initial ban was indefinite, with a minimum term of 18 months, it is misleading to focus on the indefinite maximum given that the definite minimum was usually all that was served.

While ESPN claims it was the European Athletic Association that banned her for life and the IAAF that reduced the ban to 18 months, the Olympic Review issue 134 contradicts that, and I don't see why the Europeans would be more lenient, considering that the Eastern-Bloc countries at the heart of doping had a greater voting strength in Europe than at world level. jnestorius(talk) 23:35, 12 May 2016 (UTC)