Having nailed the IOC's colours to the mast of anti-doping, will this remaining vestige of Olympic values be lost too? The IOC simply must exclude the Russian Olympic Committee and its athletes from the Rio Games When an organisation aspires to stage a festival of universal humanity through sport it really matters that everyone is there. The boycotts of the late cold war era made for both lopsided competition and displayed the painfully obvious truth that Olympian internationalism was a sham. No...
Russia and the Olympics: why the IOC's love of inclusion must be sacrificed now
The Guardian - 19 Jul 2016 20:00
Having nailed the IOC's colours to the mast of anti-doping, will this remaining vestige of Olympic values be lost too? The IOC simply must exclude the Russian Olympic Committee and its athletes from the Rio Games When an organisation aspires to stage a festival of universal humanity through sport it really matters that everyone is there. The boycotts of the late cold war era made for both lopsided competition and displayed the painfully obvious truth that Olympian internationalism was a sham. No...
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