It has become the competition between the competitions: the bruising fight every couple of years over whether to let Russia back into the Olympics.
Despite Russia being found guilty of a state-sponsored doping scheme, and repeated subsequent efforts to cover it up, the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday could level a sanction that bans the country from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—but again allows Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag, as they did at Pyeongchang in 2018.
That notion has sparked outrage among Western athletes and clean-sport advocates and calls for a harsher punishment.
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