WADA or another country must run Russia's testingWhether they are sufficient to persuade a nation seemingly addicted to malpractice and misdirection to mend its ways is another matter. That has to be the assumption, anyway, from this scandal which has cast a stain across world sport. WADA or another country must run Russia's testingMother Russia remains a strange and unfathomable lady. There is corruption in Russia, true, but this is not some alien race with deceit in its DNA. After the loss of face at the 2010 Winter Games when Russia won only 15 medals and their flagship ice hockey team crashed out in the quarter-finals, it became a case of gold at any cost.

Source: Express December 09, 2019 23:15 UTC