4 Reforms Needed To Prevent More Inexplicable IOC Decisions
By Ronald Katz (March 8, 2018, 2:17 PM EST) -- The International Olympic Committee's decision last week to reinstate Russia, despite evidence of continued Russian doping at the Pyeongchang Olympics, had as its basis, according to a statement from the IOC official from Aruba responsible for monitoring Russian compliance, that "we have to draw a line and look to the future." The quality of this explanation is actually higher than that given by the IOC president, who was quoted as saying, despite the participation of 168 Russian athletes at Pyeongchang, that "I don't think, quite frankly, that these Olympic Games have been tainted by the Russian affair because we had no Russian team here." The current IOC governance structure does not inspire confidence that future decisions will be any better unless there is major reform of the structure....
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