In every other respect, the Russians competing in Tokyo look entirely like a Russian Olympic team. They wear red, white and blue outfits, and they are announced as representing the Russian Olympic Committee, a meaningless distinction that the IOC seems to think bothers the Russians. The ban on Russia, such as it is, amounts to semantics. For the third straight Games the Russians are here and competing and winning medals and receiving congratulatory phone calls from Vlad Putin, despite having engineered the biggest doping program since the Cold War.
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