This development is also incredible to wide-eyed Wada president Craig Reedie, who professes himself “bitterly disappointed”, while the head of Usada, Travis Tygart, brands the situation “a total joke”. Back in November, Sir Craig justified his recommendation that Russia be readmitted to international competition, despite it having not met his organisation’s own conditions for that to happen. I can’t believe that former 1960s badminton starlet Craig Reedie has had his arse handed to him yet again by former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A German TV investigation claimed that up to 99% of Russian athletes were doping; subsequent individual bans revealed that even curlers and visually impaired Paralympians were at it. Without wishing to venture too far out on a limb, I don’t think Russia has reached its personal rock bottom just yet.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2019 11:00 UTC