Denationalise the Olympics to really stamp out cheating | Simon Jenkins

The IOC has become a master at marrying greed to national leaders’ hunger for Olympic prestige

Where is the justice in this? The Russian athlete, Yuliya Stepanova, risks death by revealing the extent of Russian doping in her Olympic sport. She has to flee her country with her family, live in hiding and train in secret. She is told that, provided she is “clean”, she may compete in the Rio Olympics next week, but “as a neutral”. She is then told she cannot compete. Instead the International Olym...