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Ask yourself whether the IOC action would have happened without @IcarusNetflix and @bryanfogel. I strongly suspect the answer to this question is no. Before the film came out, the entire international sporting world was beavering away at letting Russia off the hook.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 5, 2017
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The aim of anti-Russian propagandists in the West is quite clearly to portray Russia as a 'doping nation' that never tells the truth. But, as that wise old saying goes, if you point one finger, you have three pointing back at you.
As I wrote here, it was only in 2003 when allegations were made by a top American official about widespread US doping:
Wade Exum, the US Olympic Committee's former Director of Drug Control, handed over more than 30,000 pages of documents to Sports Illustrated magazine and the Orange County Register, which he said showed that over 100 American athletes had failed drug tests between 1988-2000, but had still been allowed to compete.
Carl Lewis, the US Olympian later admitted he had tested positive for banned substances before the 1988 Games in Seoul where he won Gold but claimed that 'hundreds' of fellow Americans had also escaped bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," Lewis said. "Everyone was treated the same."
But guess what? There was no McLaren style report and no blanket ban on US athletes. And no film made about the story like Icarus.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/412124-russi ... -cold-war/Well I suppose there is always 3 sides to every story.