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‘The Daily’: Russia at the Olympics

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At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, 169 plainly dressed athletes marched out in drab gray coats and bluejeans, competing not for a country but as “Olympic athletes from Russia.”

What did Russia do in the last Winter Olympics to earn them that punishment?

On today’s episode:

Rebecca R. Ruiz, an investigative reporter at The New York Times.