winner gets the fabled mouth breathing golden retriever mug. these of the cups we bring out with a good china when people come over. one more question. if someone gets the answer wrong, does the other contestant get a chance? tucker: no, we mock you. question one. some surprising news concerning the olympics this week. which country has been banned from competing in the 2018 winter olympics in south korea because of doping in previous games? gillian turner. russia. tucker: russia is the answer, is that correct? russia will be banned from the upcoming winter olympics. the country is being punished for a doping program. fa took can prove their clean can compete, but will have to compete under a neutral flag.
administration decided to wait and now it is unclear though their comments did come a day after the ioc band russia because of a widespread doping program. the russian flight will not be seen and the anthem will not be played. sarah sanders tried to calm us down by suggesting ambassador haley was misquoted, she added more confusion perhaps by suggesting this is an open question still to be decided. is it an open question? if that wasn t exactly what the ambassador said, no official decision has been made on that. we ll keep you posted as those decisions are made. sanders also said the goal is to send american athletes so she had to clarify on twitter, the u.s. looks forward to participating in the winter olympics in south korea. the protection of americans is our top priority and we are
the wrution olympic committee put on a glitzy event last week to roll out its exclusive new team uniforms and fan merchandise ahead of the winter games that start in february. they had nice turtle necks and snazzy scarves. they also had this for the russian sports fan who has everything, a sweatshirt that proclaims in english i do not do doping. the international olympic committee for the past year has been investigating extensive state-sponsored doping program among russian athletes. today they released their decision in that matter and russia will be banned from the winter games which, again, start in just two months. russia will, however or excuse mitt ioc will allow clean athletes, individual clean athletes to compete in pyeongchang even if they re russian but they won t be allowed to compete for russia. these athletes will be tro dutsd adds olympic athletes from russia. they ll be only allowed to wear generic uniforms that barrett
before when they were so to speak clean and this was not only a sort of one time thing at the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen but apparently this was part of a highly orchestrated state sponsored doping program that volved not only the russian olympic committee but the russian sports ministry the russian you know special police so this was something that was being directed from very high levels and the evidence for this really came out last year after the mclaren report and that happened basically too soon before the summer olympics for the i.o.c. to be comfortable to put a sort of blanket ban in place so they decided to really look at the same evidence and lo and behold mr schmidt which was the that the head of the new commission which gave his report today said yet the evidence checks out we need to ban russia and what happens now to the clean athletes and how are we going to prove that
includes limiting the right to strike. labor unions are calling for a general strike next week. lebanon s prime minister is revoking his resignation. he initially quit november 4, citing the iranian backed hezbollah meddling in regional affairs and assassination plots against him. he put the move on hold in mid-november and rescinded it today. the russian olympic committee has been suspended from the upcoming winter olympics in south korea. the international olympic committee says russia ran a state-sponsored doping program at the 2014 games in sochi. some russian athletes will be allowed to compete in south korea but without their national flag or anthem. russia has repeatedly refused to accept a state-sponsored doping program existed. the decision happened late in the evening moscow time, no formal reaction yet. some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight.