Ramsey Chef wrote:
The Russian skater was quoted " the only thing i ate was a pork spring roll" . The coach said " i have never heard of spring rolls".
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Did she mention whether she recalled the spring roll being very, very greasy?
Ramsey Chef wrote:
The Russian skater was quoted " the only thing i ate was a pork spring roll" . The coach said " i have never heard of spring rolls".
"
Did she mention whether she recalled the spring roll being very, very greasy?
Doping tests for figure skating? What else? Curling?
You know who else took performance enhancing drugs? Jack Nicholson. Robin Williams. Paul McCartney.
Are you going to tell me you are less impressed by their performances because they were not achieved 100% “naturally?”
Meanwhile: LetsRun accidently left this draft article outside its firewall for a couple of minutes:
Kamila Valieva’s Suspension Is a Figure Skating TragedyIf you are a Skating fan, you have a choice. It is the choice you make anytime you watch a world record get broken. It is the choice you made when you saw Christian Coleman win the World Championship 100-meter title after narrowly avoiding (the first time) a suspension for whereabouts failures. It is the choice you make, every day, consciously or unconsciously, to be excited or cynical, elated or frustrated.
(Insert a few more paragraphs of agonized prose here)
Today, you have to make that choice about Kamila Valiev, who announced last night that she has tested positive for trimetazidine in December 2021. In the case of Valiev, your choices are thus:
Option A: You believe that the trimetazidine was there because she put it there intentionally.
Option B: You believe Kamila Valiev when she says that the trimetazidine came from the pig organs she ingested from the burrito she ate at a Mongolian food truck the previous night.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my bosses at LetsRun.com, Robert and Weldon Johnson, it’s to call out bulls**t when you see it. If something doesn’t add up, if someone is getting screwed over in our sport, we write about it. When it comes to Kamila Valiev, I choose to believe Option B.
I would be lying if I said I had never discussed Kamila Valiev. Valiev was a good skater in college, but when she started winning championships, naturally her name started to pop up. And when it did, the line I’d hear most frequently was some variation of the following: I know how well she is skating, but I’d still be surprised if she was doping. That opinion was due in part to the respect that many afford her coach Tatiana Tarasova. The consensus view — not the unanimous view, but consensus — is that Tarasova's group does things the right way. How Tarasova, usually media-shy, delivered a fiery, impassioned critique of the AIU and WADA (“Shame on you! Shame on you for not caring about the truth. Shame on you for using skaters in a political chess match”
(Continue with ever weakening arguments until the average reader will loose interest and close the page.)
(Then end with a passionate rallying cry)
Testing sensitivity is going to continue to improve. These sorts of cases are not going away. The Figure Skating community must choose to believe either that justice is being done or that AIU and WADA are complicit in a broken system in need of overhaul. And if you believe the latter, why would you not scream it from the rooftops as loudly as you screamed for them to catch the cheats?