he put his country into terrible debt and invaded crimea. putin and now the economy in russia is terrible so putin for spending all that money, smiles aside, in a time and place in his nation that needs so many other things. $51 billion, the most ever spent on an olympic games. so vladimir putin is also one of my losers for the year. that s certainly a unique one in the sports department for sure. mike, you give thumbs down to team commissioner and organization as well. yes. i chose some autocrats, too, maybe not as bad as putin. look at fifa. seth bladder never invaded crimea but, man, he runs a corrupt organization and they re pompous and greedy and a top investigator for fifa left because he could not stand by. michael garcia could not stand by the report that they issues on whether there was corruption in awarding the games to qatar and russia. of course there was corruption