Canadians have no need to apologize

hope at cross country, you are well aware of how the field changes when the competitors are clean.

Harvey is a candidate to take home more than one medal from here — but he knows, really all the top contenders know, who they believe in as clean athletes and who they have no belief in.

And right now, who speaks for the clean athlete?

WADA hoped to but couldn’t. The IOC is more about playing politics than it is about doing the right things. The cheats can go to the Court of Arbitration — and Russia destroyed so much evidence that those athletes found a way back in upon appeal.

The dopers get a day in court. The clean athlete is forced to believe in a system that has no system.

And so there is tension as there was between a Canadian and a Russian. And there will be more tension. And there will be words spoken. And there will be accusations made — privately or publicly — just as there has been at every international sporting event of the past 40 years — only this time, there was a reason to believe. A reason to hope change was coming.

Canadians have lived through doping and self examination for the Ben Johnson escapade of 1988. We have been overly vigilant in our views for years now, but those views seem more and more trampled on over time, especially in a case