When sports fans watch Russian athletes win medals at next year’s Olympics, it will be hard not to feel cheated
TO SPORTS FANS who are vaguely familiar with the saga of Russia’s state-sponsored doping, but who have not paid attention to every twist since the scheme was uncovered in 2014, the latest episode probably seems decisive. And for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s sports-mad president, it is embarrassing and politically damaging. On December 9th the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited Russia from major sporting events for four years.
Even at competitions that WADA does classify as “major”, such as the FIFA World Cup, the ban could allow Russians to compete under a neutral flag. The fine print of the agency’s ruling specifies that athletes can participate as long as they have neither been named in the documents that the Russian officials handed over nor failed any drug tests. FIFA says that it is consulting with WADA about how to deal with football players in this category.
The IOC toughened its stance slightly before the 2018 winter games in Pyeongchang in South Korea. In December 2017, after conducting an investigation of its own that replicated WADA’s findings, it suspended Russia’s national Olympic committee. The IOC has also stripped the country of more than 30 medals that it won between 2008 and 2014. But it still permitted a team of “Olympic Athletes from Russia” to compete in South Korea last year. That cohort of 168 skiers and sliders won 17 medals.
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