Russia's cheating is rewarded as we both feared and expected

Americans David Wise and Elana Meyers Taylor spoke about the importance of restoring public faith in Olympic athletes. USA TODAY Sports

(Photo: Scott Rovak-USA TODAY Sports)The Olympic world is in mourning today. Cheating has been rewarded. Russia has been reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Honesty, honor and fair play have lost. The bad guys have won.

As was expected and feared, WADA, the world’s drug police, just allowed the most diabolical and massive state-sponsored doping machine this side of the old East Germany back into the good graces of the Olympic movement without satisfying all of the conditions that were required for its return.

Russia’s anti-doping agency was let off the…