> But given that USA has been doing a lot more just in my lifetime, how come not a single athlete from the USA was so much as banned from a sporting event? I’m

> But given that USA has been doing a lot more just in my lifetime, how come not a single athlete from the USA was so much as banned from a sporting event? I’m a fairly patriotic American but yes, I do recognize we’ve done at least comparably awful shit in the last 50 years. The only answer is “politics”. There’s not a rational reason, it’s just politics. I do think Russia deserves to be shunned, I just also feel USA has often deserved to be shunned as well.