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Scott Blackmun Gets to Keep His Job? Really?

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Five days after Chicago lost the bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing dead last in the voting, Stephanie Streeter stepped down from her role as the acting chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee. It showed that there was some accountability for an embarrassing failure and that someone needed to — and did — take the fall for a very public stumble.

In comparison, what do we have in light of the sexual abuse of 250-plus gymnasts at the hands of Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar, a former member of the U.