Fake Russyan Athletes at Sochi

       The Mayor has written a number of posts concerning the Russyan Federation and its athletes.  Or fake athletes.  What has recently come to light(exposed) places the largest country in the world in a separate category all by itself.  As reported in the nytimes.com by Juliet Macur, Russya's state-sponsored doping program has been institutionalized for years.  The whispering has given way to an outcry that will reshape the competitive environment at the international level.  It has been rumored, for years, that the program existed behind closed doors.   On rare occasions, evidence leaked out in the form of violations discovered among certain athletes.   Now the mastermind has come out publicly, exposing the whole rotten system promoted by Mad Vlad during his reign as King of Russya.
      Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, former lab director, was forced to resign his position after a November report by W.A.D.A. He has since fled the country and has turned up in------Los Angeles, California.  How can this be?  How can a crook arrive among us without a problem?  This gives a stretch to the command; "Give me your tired, hungry, and poor.......".   Where does he have enough friends that can put him at the head of the line?  Hmmmm.  Asylum seeker?  No doubt he had an easy time convincing somebody his life was in imminent danger.   Just this month it was announced that 2 of his lab colleagues were found dead w/i two weeks of one another.  Russya.  Gotta love that country.
      The doctor's lab was set up at Sochi, the site of the last Winter Olympics in 2014(near Crimea, where Mad Vlad decided he needed some space a short time later).  The anti-doping lab as it was called, took blood samples and analyzed them for banned substances.  With the help of the F.S.B.(former KGB), the doctor was able to switch out the tainted urine sample for clean samples, actually passing the bottles through a hole in the lab walls!  Can you believe it?  (Photo on page B11).
      The sordid story is spelled out in black and white.  W.A.D.A. officials were hoodwinked by careful planning and exploitation of systemic weaknesses.  Despite tight security, lapses at the facility allowed the F.S.B. program to work as designed in the Kremlin.
      At the Sochi Games, Russyan performers(don't call them athletes) collected 33 medals, 10 more than at previous games.  Bobsledder, Alexander Zubkov won 2 gold medals; Alexander Legkov, a cross-country skier, won a gold and a silver medal, and Alexander Tretyakov, won gold in the skeleton(sledding) competition.  Drug use did not guarantee a medal: the entire women's hockey team was doping and came in sixth.
      So, now, we have the Doper-in-Chief residing in sunny California: gardening, making borscht, looking at the Pacific Ocean.  He is also assisting in the making of the documentary "Icarus" which will be released in September and will, according to its maker, expose the entire Russyan state -sponsored doping program.
      All of this underscores the inability of the Russyan culture to abandon its recent history of fraud and duplicity.  The Russyan mind set continues to operate through a bifocal lens: true and false.
     The largest country in the world: true.  The largest fraud in the world: true.  Russya.  How sad.