IOC’s response to Russia doping scandal nothing more than a confused mess

Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova embodies the committee’s muddled verdict, after it allowed 278 Russian athletes to compete in the Rio 2016 Games Rio’s Olympic Aquatics Centre became the centre of a bitter sporting dispute that not only dominated the run-up to these Olympics but looks set to run through the entire fortnight: whether Russia’s athletes should be competing in the Games.The row, with cold war connotations, coalesced around an early showdown between the US swimming sen