What seems abundantly clear, with the International Olympic Committee preparing to make one of its most important decisions, is that Russia has no place at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February.
There should be no Russian flag, no Russian anthem, no Russian uniforms: zero Russian pageantry after all the Russian skulduggery.
That is now the minimum acceptable response to Russia’s massive and state-sponsored doping program and its continued boot dragging on taking full responsibility and instituting genuine, verifiable root-to-branch reform across all Olympic sports.
Russia is of course hardly alone when it comes to doping: See Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Alex Rodriguez and other charismatic American icons who turned out to be frauds.