Here is an extraordinarily rare statement that is nevertheless true: the International Olympic Committee has done the right thing. Not long after the first details of the Russian doping program were revealed in a German television documentary in 2014, the World Anti-Doping Agency launched an investigation into its many allegations. Over and over, Russian athletes told WADA officials that, after the German documentary aired, they were instructed to cease all cooperation with drug-testing officers. Russia’s state-directed program worked beautifully — no country had more athletes on podiums in Sochi — and were only discovered when whistleblowers came forward. The path for a country inclined to duplicate those accomplishments is clear: develop a doping program, and deny everything if caught.

Source: National Post December 05, 2017 19:52 UTC