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Dysfunction in the Olympic Movement

Alan Dershowitz, the acclaimed US legal academic, is fond of noting the proverbial if the shoe is on other foot test – to see who is and isn’t sincere in their convictions. This matter relates to the call to have Russia formally banned from the next Summer and Winter Olympics. The same is even more applicable to those who don’t favor any Russians competing under the Olympic flag as authorized neutral athletes.

Geopolitics before sport: Russian athletes were punished for being Russian

By Neil Clark | RT | January 23, 2019 Russian athletes, falsely accused of doping, won an important legal victory at the weekend. But unfortunately, the mud has stuck which is what Russia’s geopolitical enemies always wanted. As the old saying goes “a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has got […]

Russian athletes exonerated but ignored in the West

By Rick Sterling | RT | May, 2018 A major revelation in the CAS decision is that Richard McLaren, whose reports have formed the basis for banning Russians from the last two Olympics, has qualitatively changed his claim against Russian athletes. Last year, the Disciplinary Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC DC) issued rulings […]

Top sports court overturns IOC’s ban on 28 Russian athletes in groundbreaking ruling

RT | February 1, 2018 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has cleared 28 Russian athletes and dropped their life-bans over alleged doping. Their results have been reinstated and the athletes are eligible to compete in the 2018 Winter Games. “Both CAS panels unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the IOC in […]

Open Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee

Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports By Rick Sterling | American Herald Tribune | March 27, 2017 Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency […]