{"id":6793,"date":"2016-05-25T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/05\/25\/sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:03:00","slug":"sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Commentary: Russia Clinches Gold Medal For Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/25\/479420344\/sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Christine Brennan<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>If Russian athletes are allowed to compete in Rio without proper vetting of doping allegations, it&#8217;ll be history repeating itself when Soviet athletes were suspected of doping in the 1970s and &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/25\/479420344\/sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sports Commentary: Russia Clinches Gold Medal For Cheating\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/25\/479420344\/sports-commentary-russia-clinches-gold-medal-for-cheating?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Russian athletes are allowed to compete in Rio without proper vetting of doping allegations, it&#8217;ll be history repeating itself when Soviet athletes were suspected of doping in the 1970s and &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}