Doping and the Olympics: In light of the recent retroactive awarding of two Egyptian athletes with Olympic medals for their performance in 2012 following the disqualification of their Russian rivals for doping, along with a number of athletes around the world who were belatedly recognized for their achievements, several writers have attempted to examine just what exactly is wrong with international sports and anti-doping efforts.

Marina Hyde writes for the Guardian: “As that verdict [by the World Anti-Doping Agency] makes clear, this catastrophic moment in the pursuit of sporting integrity must not be conveniently confined to Russia. It is much bigger than Russia, though it must be said Russia is, at least to my knowledge, the only country where the sudden death of the first head of its anti-doping unit was followed two weeks later by that of his successor.”

A number of comments, however, criticize Hyde for failing to mention, as one user put it, “As a sideline, while smugly condemning Russia et al for their corruption and [illicit substance] scandals, strange how a British sportswoman [cycling champion Lizzie Armitstead] has just been found guilty of missing 3 tests and the UK media immediately trip over each other trying to think up new excuses to show how and why she’s of course entirely innocent… and she’s allowed to go to Rio without any questions.” (Read Fifa is awful, but the Olympics takes the gold medal for sleaze)