The Guardian
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"It’s hard work for a country to get turfed out of the Olympics. You must seriously dedicate yourself to the task. It’s not enough to have a brutal, devious autocracy that flagrantly intimidates its domestic critics and is author of miseries all over the world. It’s not even enough to dope your athletes until they virtually glow in the dark."



Russia's Olympic crisis lays bare a prevailing political apathy in sport
That Russia’s participation could only be threatened by doping transgressions ignores what might be the least politically appealing Games in a generation
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