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> “Everyone is talking about how to punish Russia, but no one is talking about how to help Russia,” Mr. Smirnov said, sipping a hot beverage in the lobby of the Lausanne Palace Hotel before delivering his final appeal to officials that afternoon.

This quote is really kind of amazing.

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Well, let's ask just that question. How do you help Russia?

The drug testing and general doping corruption is seemingly top-down, not bottom-up. I don't see the Kremlin saying "sorry we got caught everyone, we'll play fair with everyone else from now on."

Would be so kind and elaborate a bit on why do you see it as "amazing"?

god I mean it's everything from the guy's name to the setting ('sipping a hot beverage' in a 'palace hotel') compared to the content of his actual quote, which is incredibly presumptuous.

I don't see anything wrong with the guy's name... And for the rest of it - it's a a reporter who tried to paint the picture with words, so forgive me if I see it differently

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