They did it. Stunningly, the members of the International Olympic Committee’s executive board did it. They just kicked the bums out.
Russia has been suspended from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The most diabolical state-sponsored doping machine of our time, and the worst since East Germany a generation ago, has finally received the punishment it deserves.
Only those athletes who can prove they have not been cheating by being cleared by a panel that appears to be independent and in compliance with the World Anti-Doping Agency, the world’s doping police, will be allowed in Pyeongchang.