"The IOC has thanked her and offered her a trip to watch the Olympics in Rio," wrote Pinsent. It was her disclosures about rampant Russian doping that sparked the scandal. "IOC has passed the buck -- pure and simple," wrote the 45-year-old Pinsent in The Times, whilst fellow rowing Olympic legend James Cracknell said the IOC "bottled it". LONDON - Four-time Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent led a cacophony of British condemnation of the International Olympic Committee's decision not to ban the whole Russian team from next month's Rio Olympics. It needs someone of character, principle and mind to drive the IOC forward and he has completely neglected that."

Source: Bangkok Post July 25, 2016 11:15 UTC