There is a reason for not allowing Russian athletes to represent the country, the state sponsored doping violation is the situation and they can compete as independent athletes, you need to accept the fact that the entire athletes were not banned from participating because when the new broke out about state manipulation of test and encouraging people to dope in a systematic manner i thought the entire athletes will be banned but everyone can participate as independent athletes and the only restriction is not to represent the country.
Not a Russian myself, nor do I care about any specific Russian athlete, but accusing Russia of systematic doping and not pointing a finger at other countries' systematic doping is just ridiculous. I guess the difference is state manipulated systematic doping versus the state knowing about doping and turning a blind eye. Honestly, it's equally bad.
That is EXACTLY what the problem is all about. If a player in a nation ends up doping and then gets caught that nation itself punishes the player, let alone help them, so it is obvious that Russia is a lot different in that situation. Our nation for example have Olympics joining tournament, so whatever your platform is you end up fighting against others to win, and we spend over 50 million dollars for Olympic training in all of our nation, why would we want to send a person who just uses doping to comeback as humiliation? How can they help?
We just lost money and a chance to win "something" or even participating honestly and instead ended up being called a doping winner. Russia on the other hand ends up doping the participants themselves, they literally raise people with doping in order to win some medals, literally government itself does it, how is that any similar?