“There are many who will simply never agree with that. They believe WADA’s decision to reinstate the country’s anti-doping agency before Russia had adhered to a number of requirements was a grand betrayal of athletes who were cheated by the Russians at the 2014 Sochi Games and elsewhere while the country’s state-sponsored doping conspiracy ran amok over the Olympic movement.
““Clean athletes have suffered many bad days, but I hope today’s decision represents the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Jim Walden, the attorney for former Moscow lab director Grigory Rodchenkov, whose information helped blow the lid off the Russian scandal. “Make no mistake about it, there are two standards of doping justice: one for Russia and one for the rest of the world.””
https://www.apnews.com/8d7713c19e6f4c74bc0ff6453407ab89
I read the article and did not see if the Russians used the same lawyers as UNC-OJ. But it is clear they have read the UNC-OJ playbook.
““Clean athletes have suffered many bad days, but I hope today’s decision represents the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Jim Walden, the attorney for former Moscow lab director Grigory Rodchenkov, whose information helped blow the lid off the Russian scandal. “Make no mistake about it, there are two standards of doping justice: one for Russia and one for the rest of the world.””
https://www.apnews.com/8d7713c19e6f4c74bc0ff6453407ab89
I read the article and did not see if the Russians used the same lawyers as UNC-OJ. But it is clear they have read the UNC-OJ playbook.
