But the extraordinary scale of Russia’s doping program, with government agents swapping out urine samples through a hole in the wall, required the I.O.C. to take a decisive stand against the corruption of international sport. By any reasonable measure of justice and fairness, Russia should be banned from the Games, as WADA and several national Olympic committees and Olympic athletes demanded. decision left it to the international federations for the 28 Olympic sports events to analyze each athlete’s history of drug tests and to determine which athletes were innocent. was leaving it to individual sports federations to rule on which Russian athletes could compete.

Source: International New York Times July 26, 2016 07:18 UTC