That’s an argument which doesn’t support integrity very much. they would be here if the cheating in Sochi didn’t happen - well, neither Stolbova or Bukin ever cheated.
If an Asian person kills someone, does it make it right to send to prison another Asian person instead? You could say the same argument- person B wouldn’t be in prison if the murder did not happen. Bottom line is, it was not person B who killed. There is no proof that person B was even involved in any killing. How does it make it right to punish person B based only on their ethnicity? The truth is, in any court, person B would never be punished without any proof. But with the Olympics, the major countries seem to be fighting for any advantage, no matter how unfair the advantage will be. So why not remove Russian pair number two, who could be medal contenders, and Russian dance number two. The couple and the pair would have contributed to the team event, so by that they got rid of two strong teams from the Russian team event, leaving them with the choice of their number one doing both SP and FS and then may be too tired for the individual event, or having the SP or FS do by a much weaker team. In any case, it will influence the results of the Russian team, and I wonder if that was the intention. What if the greedy Russians ended up with too many medals? No worries, we will fix it.
