Russia May Be Banned From 2016 Rio Games After Russian Government Helped its Athletes Doping at Sochi

So Russian athletes were doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympic winter games. This shouldn’t be a surprise. The extent of the doping? That is a mild surprise. The World Anti-Doping Agency released an extensive report on the doping and … yes, at least one ping pong player was doping. A handball athlete was doping.

This paragraph is all you need to know:

"Rodchenkov claimed that up to 15 Russian medal winners at the Sochi Winter Games were part of a program in which tainted urine samples were switched for clean ones."

So now the question becomes whether or not Russia will be banned from the Rio Olympics this summer. [via Guardian]