TS #7 - Brad Charlassier

My 7th tutoring session was with Dojun over Skype. We decided that talking about current events and learning vocabulary through that was a good way for us to do our sessions, so this session we continued doing just that. This time we talked about the Russian doping scandal. A large report came out a few weeks before the Rio Olympics that said that the Russian drug testing process for the Russian Olympians had been tampered with. The organization in charge of getting the samples from the athletes would use known clean urine in place of all of the Russian athletes actual urine. I asked him what he thinks this means for Russia in terms of the upcoming Olympic games and I also explained to him what "tampering" meant. He was pretty much able to guess what tampering meant from the context. Dojun was not sure if he thought that banning all Russian athletes would be a just punishment, but did think that they should be retested for these upcoming Olympics. I think that there are probably some Russian athletes that had their pee swapped out, despite them not using any sort of performance enhancing drugs. So if we do the retesting method, under a different organization, I think we could have the most fair outcome.