Bach is off key in this blame game

THOMAS BACH, the president of the International Olympic Committee, is refusing to accept collective responsibility over the latest scandal to affect his organisation. He says individuals alone are to blame for the evidence of vote-buying around the award of the 2016 Games to Rio de Janeiro. He has a point. There should be more individuals held to account at the top of sport. For instance, Bach — and not the many affiliated sports federations — is to blame for letting the cheating Russians into the Rio Games. Meaning Bach is to blame for the contempt most now hold for the Olympic movement. So Bach is the one responsible for only having two host bids for the next two Olympic Games. He is right, it’s so much better when we just name the guilty man.