I don't think anybody cares about the Russian state supporting athletes. The Olympic games did away with real amateur athletes long ago. (Anybody consider Charles Barkley an "amateur" in 1996) I think the real problem was the Russian doping.
Trap doors in the urinalysis sample rooms is a typical Russian ploy. Their response at getting caught was probably "Well, you guys are doing it too! Why are you picking on us?"
The Russian World (Русский мир) demonstrating its superiority through success in international competition to me is a lot less threatening than international communism. What does the Русский мир stand for? Being anti-gay, supporting the Russian Orthodox Church (without taking the tenets of Christianity too seriously) and singing the praises of Vladimir Putin? That ain't gonna sell in Vietnam or El Sal or Angola. Communism, however, sold quite nicely in those environments and still sells on American college campuses.
Russia today is an oddball pariah, albeit one with nuclear weapons and an army that is illegally in several neighboring countries. Not harmless, but not what they used to be.
The sports commenter was making the point that the rest of the world doesn't do it like the Russians are doing it now, not by a long shot. As far as its danger to the rest of the world, IDK and IDC. It's just that everyone else's doing to is neither true nor germane...
