0:00 [Music] this news today uh gets a little bit controversial but uh who's familiar with the name shikari richardson yes all right who's shikari richardson she's a olympian uh track star 100 meter dash oh yeah yeah that's sure you're right absolutely right yeah oh she's the one with the beautiful hair she got positive for marijuana right is that why she didn't go right before the qualifications for tokyo olympics she ends up just getting disqualified because she tests positive for having somebody she was in a kanye music video after was she that sounds appropriate she was in a really cool commercial yeah so she she never got to be an olympian oh yeah she didn't get to go she's so she's young though so she'll she'll get there she'll get there yeah she was for sure the fastest sprinter in the world when it was like she was smoking full with like 14 inch nails yeah yeah yeah
0:51 yeah yeah yeah that's flojo style she could be bolt she could be mr bolt she could i don't i don't know i don't think so he's fast she beat him but the conversation is not a gender thing right now i didn't know i didn't i was just thinking if she was the fastest thing who's like comparing it to the fact that it's a world record or something yeah she has she has world records for sprinting is 100 meters that's her event i believe so yeah but the problem that and the reason why this sparks controversy today is because she sees a double standard in allowing another girl camilla vallieva from russia to compete after testing positive also for a different uh doping agent but what was it though testosterone uh no it's a band it's a band substance some other band substance but it the essence of it is still to like allow her to like combat things like fatigue or blah blah blah whatever oh wait uh i thought russia
1:42 wasn't allowed in olympia they're not russia it's like it's like russian federation of states or something like that it's like a loophole good loophole it's a loophole where the country doesn't win the gold medal but it allows the athletes to still compete oh oh is that the where the flag is like it's weird right it's like it just looks like a generic one okay yeah so u.s sprinter chicago richardson is calling out olympic and anti-doping officials after russian skater camilla vallieva was allowed to compete despite testing positive for a band drug she says can we get a solid answer on the difference between their situations richardson asked on twitter after mediators ruled that vallieva should be allowed to skate in the women's individual competition in beijing the only difference i see is i'm a black young lady it's all in the skin i mean it's also america versus russia that's a huge difference
2:32 and also marijuana the way that the world sees it is way crazier than the u.s yeah just because yeah they see it like it's heroin do they do they say what kind of dope she was taking yeah it says uh so thc is on the world anti-doping agency's list of prohibited substances but so is triumatas the drug that was found in the valley of his test sample i don't understand why thc is banned the way that like steroids it's like not all drugs are created equal i don't know anybody that smokes weed and becomes better at like being a physical athlete yeah yeah it's that's not normal maybe jiu jitsu like i can see because they there there are people that create like the whole 10th planet crew believes in like smoking weed did say that if you found weed earlier he'd be a better boxer because it would calm him yeah so i guess it's performing enhancing but
3:23 it's not something like steroids or it's a clear-cut enhancing dopamine right this trimetazidine that was found in vallejo's test sample is a heart drug that's believed to be able to boost athletes endurance and blood efficiency in other words it can boost athletic performance while thc does not yeah i think thc is just a bad substance because they see it like it's smoking crack that's why dude the russians always find a way to like get into the movie though they should have just ████ banned her too that is stupid the skater's defense and i i actually believe she should be ousted from the olympics but in her defense they're saying she's because she's 15 she's she doesn't control what she ingests it's not a loophole but it's people are saying because she's 15 she doesn't know what she's enjoying she shouldn't be punished for what her coaches are making her take the sprinter she and with
4:13 intense smoked weed oh yeah yeah it wasn't like it's like hey hey take this you know what what is it don't worry about it trust me and then she took it has never made somebody faster no but usually slower yeah i'm surprised she's so fast why that's not an argument is because it's a bad substance yeah yeah the reasons don't matter but for this 15 year old you know they're saying because she's 15 she didn't know what she was taking okay however having said that the people responsible should know and so it's still under the same it's still under the same still ████ up her chances yeah yeah yeah yeah richardson who like valevo was favored to win in a medal uh in her sport also noted a stark difference in how their positive tests were handled while the russian star failed the test that was submitted in december she somehow avoided suspension and the news of the positive tests only began to trickle out after vallejava helped her team win a gold medal in
5:03 beijing and in contrast richardson said her drug test was a result quickly became public knowledge my name and talent was slaughtered to the people that's that's down to the country though that's just how we ████ roll well i always they did slaughter her i don't know that's just how the ████ us is man yeah because i think like so if wada is the governing agent which is the world anti-doping agency depending on how the country handles it handles their news i think we love drama and we like to sensationalize that's the irresponsibility of our press yeah so our friends will immediately go oh look at this over there if that news trickles down the government could probably like don't ████ believe anything so you press all that ████ don't don't believe anything you're here that's just ████ ████ this is the pride of our country let's surprise exactly countries are about looking good to the world and we're about ████ hate america yeah we don't hate ourselves so that kind of rolls back in a different way of how it actually plays out you know interesting
5:54 the other thing too is that there's no doubt ioc accepts money there's no i mean there's no doubt um and there's also no doubt that russia is willing to pay to get all the allowances corruption we do it all the time how much just tell me like russia yeah that's the whole the whole documentary icarus did you watch it yeah yeah i've heard about it yeah but like in the u.s no one's going to pay for her no one's going to know the a place to sneak pee samples out to go back and back and through to to make sure that it was uh they would take out the one that had their glory holes for ████ yeah and they would slide it back in i think it's a i think it needs updating because now we have to see like okay so we allow alcohol usage right so like athletes being able to drink after they run or whatever but um they can't smoke a little weed
6:45 because i see them as kind of the same and maybe alcoholism is a little bit more dangerous as a substance than thc so i don't i don't know what i think it's an old law that needs to be updated because what is it about thc that's uh like harmful and dangerous to the athlete if it's not enhancing because if they're gonna say uh performance-enhancing drugs those substances are not right are not allowed in the olympics and then they'll say okay um banned substances that are legal for most countries or whatever like cocaine heroin whatever you can't do that because for whatever reason but they have to have a logical reason i don't ████ know i know i know i know this i know it is because i don't do drugs so i know so weed lowers your anxiety and stress levels right and you're just relaxed
7:35 that's part of competition to be able to handle the stress and anxiety like with the with the audience because it's one thing shooting a basket in front of your teammates it's another thing to score a basket in front of 20 000 people and the olympics you're talking about hundreds of thousands and hundreds of millions of people watching to deal with that stress and anxiety now do i 100 believe my theory no however i'm just offering an option yeah tyson used to say he would cry a ball in the locker room before he went into the ring yeah he just had an anxiety and his fear was just so crazy to be able to deal with that and then still perform i think that's part of because you know michael jordan talks about um fear like to be able to drive like i have no fear i i you know we know because when we watch him we see it so easily he just drives the lane and dunks oh it's so easy but for most people there's a lot of fear
8:25 involved will i be able to make it what if i don't make it um will that foul will i trip with all these fears that happen and you've got to be able to deal with that to become a michael jordan yeah to become like the best at something you know jeremy lin is a good jeremy lin is a good example of that right like because he has this whole story about how he went on that crazy run in insanity but it was because he had no other choice he had to ball out yeah but then as he got more famous he talks about this where he was like i just didn't believe in myself like i just was second guessing everything that i did and therefore my performance exactly and he's like i know everybody around me knows i'm way better than this but i just couldn't get over that anxiety that like pressure it's his parents stop beating them exactly that's why you gotta beat your kids y'all here's a question following up to that then so is alcohol banned in the olympics like if you get caught with alcohol in your
9:16 pee do you get in trouble i don't think so no but it's also like but then i've heard liquid courage right so if that's the case how come athletes don't drink and then perform hand-eye coordination imagine imagine they drink before woohoo they're [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] they just they just never let go or he thinks the pole vaults the javelin i can throw it just like a balance beam you're like this on it dude imagine imagine like the high bar in gymnastics and they're drunk and he lets go at the
10:06 wrong time and he just shoots into the air that's what we need for the olympics we need drunk olympics and that will show how good you are yeah here's a little kicker it says cannabis remains on a list of banned substances that the world anti-doping agency released shortly after the token olympics but the agency said in september that it will review the ban citing requests from a number of stakeholders in international athletics interestingly once money's involved cbd companies yeah hey but you know what the other thing though too about the shikari thing is like people talk about uh like drug testing in general for professional sports and they say like it's kind of an intelligence test it's like you everyone knows that like right when it's going to come around kind of like there's like there's ways to find out when you get tested and everyone dopes i heard and i exactly everyone dub you like in part of me feels like
10:56 shikari is probably not the only athlete that uses marijuana yeah for sure not so part of the argument too is like you didn't try to like like guess i'm a fake p i know you couldn't she didn't try hard at night it's part of the game already and if everyone smokes weed in the olympics like we're talking strictly olympics performance enhancing drugs in professional sports in general is like is very prominent so part of it too is like you miss your opportunity for gold medal because you're smoking pot and like that's not really the issue but it's like you didn't try to pass the drug test but then when you okay as far as i know when you smoke pot though do you want to do things that's true so that could have been the issue but if you're if you're the best if you know like oh i just broke a record and i'm gonna beat every her story that she was smoking weed because she was like dealing with depression from her mom yeah okay yeah see there's stuff like that too for sure when i
11:46 smoke yeah there was a gymnast that got caught with adderall and that's a bad substance in uh olympics but she also has extreme adhd so i think there's also like um there's certain things you can take with prescriptions so things that are already complicated is even that much more complicated if she got the weed as a prescription maybe it would have been okay shikari got glaucoma that's why that's why she's smoking pot yeah she has cataracts if she had it then maybe it would have been okay she really does i'm trying to out i'm trying to savor it bro okay it sounds like wait i thought she said she because her mom she's all oh wait i have glaucoma actually okay okay are you good she should have just said that it's like what the nfl does like nfl players will say like every year the uh like the list comes out like what the band substances we do everything right up into the line of banned substance and then the next
12:37 year if something's banned then we don't we do less yeah that's cool do everything up to that you know because they want every edge possible so like you know and i don't know that nfl players will smoke weed because they probably want that killer instinct and where if it's if that's like dull [Music] rehab they're probably smoking to relax drugs affect people in different ways you can totally be like super focused productive on weed like it just depends on like your usage and your your intake ability i just get paranoid and tired i'm pretty productive on weed i think that i think they were just hard on her too because it's a very plain breaching of very strict obvious rules yeah because i i used to work with olympians when i was composing for them and they told me that like they were like hey sorry at any time someone could just show up and go all right let's do the test like any time they could collect two in the morning yeah because they
13:27 have to tell the um the the committee where they are at all times the whereabouts so that the drug test people can find them and they'll just be like are you gonna pee in this thing someone they have like a male and a female to watch you do it it's really really strict so it's like i think it's the disrespect of like you knew this was the case and you still did it is why they were like no you're not ████ going olympics it's more of like you can't make us look like asses by just saying oh i was like depressed i smoked in america yeah now the committee looks like ████ no power you know how big that story got yeah like that story was huge didn't want her to like to look like she's taking away like like usurping their authority because that's really like that's you didn't really do anything that's a weird ego trip she did something so like nothing and then of course you're not going to get their power take an example unfortunately exactly action two wasn't the best no yeah it's not and that's not the time to talk
14:17 about should we reform this law after you got caught doing it like this is the worst time we should reform it and then smoke all day to celebrate yeah on camera baby [Music] you
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