Ruling by the court of arbitration for sport,overturning lifetime Olympic bans on 28 Russian athletes, leaves Olympic movement in state of chaos on the eve of Pyeongchang GamesA month before Rio 2016 a report authored by the Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren found overwhelming evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia. So why – more than 18 months later – are we a week absent from another Olympic Games wondering yet again how many Russian athletes will be competing?The ruling by the court of arbitration for sport, or overturning lifetime Olympic bans on 28 Russian athletes,leaves the Olympic movement in a state of chaos on the eve of another major international sporting event. That this mess was avoidable is an unforgivable error of judgment by the International Olympic Committee.
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Source: guardian.co.uk