The star-shaped symbol should come in handy at yearend when the international sports community bids 2022 goodbye, with winners in world championships perhaps wondering if they are really the best swimmers or gymnasts around absent their Russian counterparts from, say, the Budapest or the Birmingham leg in which they took part.

Not to mention London for Wimbledon or Bogota for weightlifting and other cities and countries for other events that truly mattered for those who would not settle for being second-best.

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