There have been a lot of threads on the Russian doping scandal, but I have not seem too many posts that flat out ask the question if they should be banned on not.
Personally, I am all over the place on this one. At one point, I felt the entire team should be banned, then I felt only the athletes with a doping connection, then I was back to the whole team and now I'm on the fence. I lived through the 1980/84 boycotts and feel that medals in some events from those Olympics almost require an asterisk. The 1980 Olympics was missing about half of the top track & field nations, namely the USA, most of Europe and Africa. The men's 110 hurdles was won in 13.39, the USA could have went 1-2-3 in that race. Conversely, the 1980 Olympics were missing the USSR and the Eastern Europeans. Any women's 400m or 800m race that did not include Marita Koch and Jarmila KratochvÃlová almost deserves an asterisk. My hope was those situations would never happen again.
I am on the fence/conflicted because I don't want to through the baby out with the bathwater; however, all of the recent Russians busted for the heart medication and their lack of humility in this process is concerning. - What are your thoughts.