HAH. About. Fucking. Time. If you haven't seen the documentary Icarus it's enthralling, and a bit enraging at times. This kind of doping has been going on for years and years, and Russia should have been banned a long time ago. Think Marion Jones but a much more sophisticated system. This isn't just Russia, but it doesn't feel like going out on a limb to say they are the most institutionalized doping nation right now, though it wouldn't surprise me to find other nations with rampant usage of P.E.Ds...Tuesday’s penalty was in line with what had been advocated by two key whistle-blowers whose accounts upended Russia’s standing in global sports over the last several years and were cited in Mr. Schmid’s report: Grigory Rodchenkov, the chemist who spent 10 years as Russia’s antidoping lab chief and was key to carrying out the cheating schemes in Sochi; and Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of Russia’s antidoping agency who married a runner for Russia’s national team and was the first to speak publicly about the nation’s institutionalized cheating.