The doping scandal, which may exclude Russian athletes from this summer’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, is dominating the political news in Moscow at the moment. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) executive board has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban all Russian athletes from the Olympics after the publication of a report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, which confirmed the existence of a massive state-run doping scheme that apparently allowed Russia to win more gold medals than any other nation in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The success at Sochi was seen as a personal triumph for …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
