us a little bit more about. well many people as i just said believe this is actually basically pure politics in fact the impression from talking to people on the street and from the social media hash tag that hash tag that i just mentioned you know people really think that this is part of a western campaign against russia you know they they talk about the sanctions people talk about the hacking allegations against russia and they really see these new allegations of this doping scandal in within that context and that could actually funnily enough help president vladimir putin after all there are elections coming up in march and even before the international olympic committee made its decision yesterday. there were media reports that this whole sort of narrative that russia is being punished could play a part in his election campaign he hasn't actually officially announced that he's