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The indignation of the International Olympic Committee and its president, Thomas Bach, was rich.
Russia’s state-sponsored doping program was a “fundamental attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and on sport in general,” the IOC said. Anyone involved should be “excluded for life from participation in the Olympic Games in whatever capacity,” Bach added.
The kind of brazen cheating laid out in the second McLaren report Friday was made possible by Bach and his Olympic cronies’ steadfast refusal to do the right thing.