The olympic spirit celebrates the continual effort to overcome old records. Last Olympics may have been corrupt; but the IOC has chosen you, because they believe in you, to show the world just how much more corrupt they can be!
(More realistically, given that Russia’s proposal was the mind-bogglingly stupid “Hey! Let’s put the winter olympics in a subtropical war zone, rather than just about anywhere else in Russia!”, the IOC must have just swooned when Putin’s intoxicating musk of money and abusive state power washed over them.)
