The Olympic jamboree starts Friday in Rio de Janeiro. In the run-up to the Games, as the organizers scrambled to iron out all the traditional last-minute snags, they faced a thorny social problem: Should we invite the druggies to our party?
Less than three weeks before the start of the Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency urged a total ban on Russian participation. WADA released a report that it claimed corroborated “state-sponsored subversion of anti-doping processes.” The highlight was a scheme to cheat drug testers at the Sochi Winter Olympics — an example, it said, of Russia’s breathtaking contempt for international rules.
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Source: European Voice
