If you’re looking for winners after the International Olympic Committee’s decision to boot Russia from the upcoming Games, keep on looking. One potential endgame is that Russia just throws up its hands and leaves the movement altogether. That led to, ‘We are going to change the way we do things for 2014.”‘Boy did they. As the IOC investigation confirmed, Rodchenkov helped build the cheating program at the behest of higher-ups in the Russian government. But probably the best that can be said given the current state of the Olympics.
Source: National Post December 05, 2017 23:15 UTC