There Is No Law: Ridiculous Decision by the IOC Shows Putin Still Holds The Cards And Wins

Russia WILL be allowed to compete (in the sports in which it is not disqualified) in Rio.

And Yahoo!'s Dan Wetzel sees right through it:  As the Sochi effort was a full-scale state-sponsored sports terrorism motif (in the use of the Olympics to justify Russia's rampant homophobia and nationalistic violence (the latter especially against it's former states such as the Ukraine)), it is thought that Vladimir Putin could blow up the entire Olympic movement by exposing it's corruption, as it relates to the naming of Sochi as the 2014 host city (and *Cough* Salt Lake City in 2002... *Cough*).

Unfortunately, let's call a spade a spade:  I always thought of that "blowing up" as a far more literal event.

As in, Russia allies with ISIS or some other wack-job and blows up the Opening Ceremony or something to that effect.

I believe Russia is only being allowed to compete so The Show Must Go On at all -- punishing Russia might inflame Putin to the point the Olympic Stadium literally burns with thousands dead in 12 days.

This is the capability of the man and the nation he has rebuilt into a terrorist power.  And he used the Sochi Homophobe-lympics as a political ploy against the world -- using the medal-count victory as a political pawn to kill gays in the country and Ukranians there.

And he gets away with it.

Why?

Because he holds the cards.