They tried to tell you.
The athletes, the folks who truly care about fair play and clean sport, the countries that haven’t sold their souls for Russia’s almighty rubles — they begged and pleaded with the International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency to not give in. They warned of what a horrible message it would send to let Russia back into the good graces of the Olympic movement a mere two years after its widespread and systemic doping program was discovered.
And still the IOC and WADA gave in.
Don’t they feel stupid now.
On Thursday, just two weeks after WADA reinstated Russia’s anti-doping agency, the U.