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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Russian ice hockey player and gold medalist of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games Ivan Telegin during an award ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Feb. 28, 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Russian ice hockey player and gold medalist of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games Ivan Telegin during an award ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Feb. 28, 2018.
An International Olympic Committee statement said the body was lifting the suspension of Russia's national Olympic committee with immediate effect, after the final anti-doping samples from Russian athletes at Pyeongchang Olympics came back negative.
News of the decision to reinstate Russia came just as athletes were gathering for the award ceremony at the Kremlin, where it was met with evident satisfaction. Putin feted the athletes, toasting champagne with them after pinning Russian state honors on the medal-winners.
Comment: The libtards are of course freaking out at Trump's comments, but if they stopped to think for a minute, they'd come to see that the West desperately needs to get out of its 'liberal democracy' model, which is clearly ossified, decrepit, and at least partly why it's failing. Western democracy after Western democracy is producing election results that have hung parliaments, impossible coalitions, then more expensive elections.
If one good man is all that is available, and all that is needed, then why chuck away a perfectly good (or just reasonably good) leader after just 8 or 10 years?