To play, or not to play, that is the question!

A year before the Paris Olympics, officials governing many of the sports on the 2024 program are still split on how to treat Russian athletes

Picture this. It is the final of the men’s singles tennis event, the Russian Daniil Medvedev breaks his opponent’s serve, mixing angles with the sparkling freshness of a school boy armed with a brand-new geometry box, as his opponent falls just fractionally off his game, and – a millisecond later – Medvedev is triumphantly celebrating gold.

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