Boos Taunts And Jeers Russia Under Siege At Rio Games
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Weakened and bruised by sport’s biggest doping scandal in decades, Russia is under siege at the Rio Games. The Russian team, tarnished and reduced in number following allegations of state-backed cheating, is keeping tight-lipped after being jeered by hostile crowds at multiple venues. But Russian fans are incensed and speaking out. “They don’t love us here. They think we do all these bad things, that we are cunning and wicked,” said Tatyana Omelchenko, who travelled almost 15,000 km (9,320 miles) from the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia to watch fencing in Rio....