Their country didnt put them into the mess. I´m pretty sure that russian state did not involve lets say Medvedeva, who was 14 in 2014, and Zagitova, who was even younger, in any doping schemes.
If they can really prove the guilt of the russian state, punish the state, not individual athletes in a sport that had nothing to do with the *possible* doping scheme
Geez, that's what they are doing. Clean athletes, including, Medvedeva, will compete if Putin gives a "real" approval to compete. The IOC made a significant concession by allowing athletes to be identified as "Olympic Athletes from Russia." I really think that Bach has bent over backwards to avoid a Russian boycott, but Putin will do what's politically expedient.