Oh, the joys and drama of the figure skating final in Beijing.
, permitted to skate in the women’s event despite her positive drug test, dropping from first to fourth place after a free skate in which she fell twice, sobbing while her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, berated her for the jumps she had missed. Of her teammate Alexandra Trusova, the silver medalist, screaming on live TV feed that she was the only one who didn’t have a gold medal. Of Japanese bronze medalist Kaori Sakamoto, sobbing in what looked like a mixture of joy, sympathy, and tension.
Anna Shcherbakova, Alexandra Trusova, and Kaori Sakamoto after the women’s figure skating final in Beijing.When the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared Valieva to compete, it said that to do otherwise would cause her “irreparable harm.” That decision did irreparable harm to her competitors who did not take drugs, to the integrity of the sport, and to Valieva herself, a 15-year-old who literally took the fall for the actions of adults around her.
At the pairs’ free skate, only a fraction of a point separated the first-place Chinese team Sui Wenjing and Han Cong from the three ROC teams, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov, and Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitri Kozlovskii.
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