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By Michael Rosenberg With the looming threat to invade Ukraine and the specter of another doping scandal, one country continues to be at the center of Olympic dysfunction. BEIJING — In the first period of the gold-medal men’s hockey game, Finland’s Hannes Björninen high-sticked Russian Olympic Committee’s Egor Yakovlev, and the Russians responded with a power-play goal. It was so nice to see Russia make somebody pay for breaking a rule. Finland won the game, but Russia was the story of yet another Olympics. The Russians finished second in the medal count here, behind Norway; imagine what they’…