I agree that Olympics should be more focused on sports and competition. So appealing to the afore-mentioned law is not quite logical (Cameron also said something like that). But it should be understood that ‘law’ in Russia doesn’t mean that it is introduced to make the life of the people better, and also ‘law’ in Russia is often not executed afterwards. The true meaning of that law to my mind is that powers-that-be are again trying to gain favor with the people (the majority of the people in Russia - due to cultural issues - consider non-straights as very strange and see them as a challenge to traditional relations). Powers-that-be know this and introduce this law to say ‘Hey guys, you see, we feel the same way as you do, we share your values…’ S.Fray is a British national and to him a law means something else compared to what it means to Putin and to many Russians (in Russia it’s often important for powers-that-be to appeal to core traditional values and not to logic, it just happens due to history and culture that these values are not ‘westernized’). So Putin and his clique may in reality have their actual views on homosexuality, it’s just more politically advantageous for them to introduce such a law at this time as way of dialogue with the Russian people (in the same way as him catching a ’21 kg pike’ and stuff like that, implying ‘Hey guys, I am a cool fisherman, that’s how I spend vacation…’).