The Guardian view on doping bans: let's hear it for the Paralympics | Editorial

Russian athletes have been banned from next month's Paralympic Games. Quite right. It's the clearest possible message that performance-enhancing substances are completely unacceptable No Olympic Games can entirely escape the backwash of conventional political tensions, and Rio is no exception. Israel is angry because Lebanese athletes refused to share a bus to Friday's opening ceremony. Serbia has issued instructions, almost certainly superfluous, that its athletes are to boycott any medal cerem...