Russia should ask, if it alone is doping its athletes, then how come other countries' sometimes beat them? They are all at it. We all know that. Not all athletes. But all countries that participate in these things and which can afford the drugs.
Beginning in earnest in relation to the Beijing Olympics, we have spent the last dozen years watching an attempt to redefine international sporting contests as expressions of neoconservative "Western values", to the exclusion of real or alleged dissenters or backsliders.
But international sporting contests are not that at all. Even the suggestion that they are primarily or ordinarily about promoting peace and understanding stretches credulity, to say the very least. International sporting contests are international sporting contests. No more, and no less.
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