The 2026 Milano-Cortina Paralympic Games drew Sunday to a close, with China atop the medals table, the United States second and — what’s this — Russia third. 

The successful — no other word for it — reintegration of the Russians at the Paralympics foreshadows, almost certainly, not only what is likely but what should most certainly be the case at the Olympics, presumably if not probably as soon as the next edition, the Los Angeles Games in 2028.