The suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee is over.
(Inside the Games)
A lot of people are pissed.
They should be.
But there are two major problems, and I already said the first one in why I believed (wrongly, it turned out) the IOC would allow the Russian flag to fly at the Closing Ceremony:
Blame the whole situation of the sexual assault culture of the US Olympic Teams in at least two of the major sports.
You can't keep Russia out and keep the United States in.
You can't. It's that simple.
The second problem is why I'm not sure people should be THAT pissed...
An association of national anti-drug task forces in athletics said that it took the two positives already given to keep the Russian flag from flying in the Closing Ceremony. That association is correct.
Though Thomas Bach himself has said that a new case would not extend the ban, there is at least an implicit condition that no further Olympic Athletes From Russia come back with positive drug tests from these Games.
We'll see.
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