Nuclear Winter Olympics: Day 0: CAS throws out 45 Russians.

• The last-minute appeals of 45 Russian athletes for the PyeongChang Games have been dismissed.
• The United States Olympic Committee announces it will put all of it's resources to hosting the Los Angeles 2028 Games, ending plans for a 2026 Winter Games bid.
• A Canadian team member has caused a team-wide warning after a verbal exchange with an Olympic Athlete From Russia.
• Those Olympic Athletes From Russia will march between Austria and Kazhakstan, with an Olympic volunteer carrying the Olympic flag.  They will be 55th of the 92 teams to march, and the order is the Korean alphabet.

Again, thank you to Inside the Games for the neutral information.

• From Deadspin, probably the most important news of the day:  The USOC has commissioned an independent inquiry into the sexual assaults and the like by Dr. Larry Nassar.  One might have to ask, eventually, whether a similar disqualification for USOC denial and allowance of Nassar's (and others') misconduct might be in line for Tokyo 2022 and onward...

Tonight's Parade of Nations will begin with Greece, and then a quirk of the Korean alphabet...  Three African nations will be next.

Medal-count rivals Norway and Germany will march sixth and ninth in the Parade.

To the chagrin of NBC, the United States will march 26th, about a quarter of the way into the Parade.