And if that wasn’t bad enough, nor will it be able to compete under the Russian flag. Football Team From Russia is a bit Yakov Smirnov, isn’t it? For soccer, the long-running Russian doping scandal is something that happened to other people. It has long given the impression that doping is a problem for every sport in the world except the most popular and most lucrative one. The fact that the sport can fool itself into believing it is immune might be because nobody is doping.

Source: New York Times December 14, 2019 10:52 UTC