You put the question to Sanya Richards-Ross, a gold medal runner who has come back from so many injuries and who hopes to make another Olympic team before she retires.

Would she let Russia, which carries about it the odor of state-sponsored doping, into the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro?

She shook her head.

“You think about everything that happened, and how far up the chain it has gone there,” she said of Russia last month. “Missing the Olympics? For sure, that’s a reasonable punishment for the crime.”

The accumulating evidence of a state-sponsored doping program filled with duplicity and evasion lay exposed to the sun.