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South African social segregation also affected black athletes and fans. Similarly Russia has been punished for state-sponsored doping, and not its anti-gay legislation or sending weapons and "little green men" into Ukraine. The problem with punishing countries for human rights violations and political malfeasance is that every country violates human rights to some degree or other. Capital punishment is legal in the USA and the country has its own problems with mass imprisonment and racism. So should the USOC be banned from the Olympics? Should Japan be banned from the Olympics for its refusal to accept multiculturalism and its harsh immigration rules? Should India be banned for its Hindu nationalist policies and occupation of Srinigar? Who decides which human rights violations are worthy of banning and which are not? There is no way to sustain a functioning "Olympic Movement" in which countries are banned for political reasons. In a sane and sober world it would be the United Nations which punished political misconduct, not NGO's. Unfortunately we do not live in a sane and sober world.