I'm a huge winter sports junkie. I love skiing and snowboarding, played hockey growing up, spent winters snowmobiling as a kid, and still get excited every time the first snow hits our house. Needless to say, the Winter Olympics are a big deal around here. Despite NBC's terrible coverage, every four years they run on a nigh-endless loop in the man cave.
So, I must admit I'm a little bummed out to learn that Russia has been banned from this February's games.
Oh sure, they cheat and they deserve their punishment. Like Harvey Weinstein's groping, the Russian doping program has been a well-known Olympic fixture since the height of the Soviet era. But they were the bad guys. And somehow, despite their drugs, their insatiable medal-lust, and the pressure placed on their athletes by their communist overlords, we still managed to eke out victories like this...