In fact, as of Wednesday, the Russian athletes had won 52 medals putting them in third place after China and the United States, according to the latest Olympic medals tally.
“It was so extensive, it was outrageous,” he said. “When the story came out, it was an enormous scandal and I personally felt that they just should have banned Russia from the Olympics for four years – period.” “Unfortunately, we’ve seen this horror film already – where the Russian state-sponsored doping program walks free and Russia wins while the IOC and WADA leaders attempt to pull the wool over the world’s eyes by claiming Russia is 'banned’,” Tygart said, referring to the World Anti-Doping Agency, in an email to Reuters
“Russian boxer Gadzhimagomedov reaches final in the Olympics and guarantees himself a silver,” was the headline for the top story in Kommersant, a leading Moscow daily newspaper Tuesday.
Nobody enforced the ruling, nobody said nyet!!
THE OLYMPICS COMMITTEE DON'T STAND BY THIER RULES LET RUSSIAN IN THE GAMES FLYING UNDER THE ROC .THEIR SHOUD HAVE NEVER BEEN IN THESE GAMES
What a joke of a ban
Olimpics without Russian athlets would be loss for everyone, expecually for public who actualy watch games, that is clear for everyone except to chees Burger overdosed Americans. Are you brain dead? Who would watch NBA if you ban best teams & players? Games are fun, not politics
Cry
The whole world is scared of standing up to Russia. It's kind of pathetic.
Because IOC is corrupt, plain and simple.
Russia: