They Destroyed a Russian Figure Skater

The media only cares about a story and ratings, not the dignity and life of a minor, young girl. Typical. 

I wonder whether Valieva was told that she had to throw the competition so the other two Russians would get to have a medal ceremony. I don't think that the Russians are the international threat that all the NatSec "experts" on CNN (who are paid well to be on the boards of big defense contractors) claim. But Russia is a pretty crooked place. 21 journalists have been murdered in Russia since Putin came to power. It is a well established practice in Russia that you can curry favor with the government or an oligarch by offering to "take care of" a problem in exchange for a government contract or high ranking job, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if someone got to Valieva's family and made it clear that bad things would happen if she got a medal. And I just can't believe that Valieva would turn in such a poor performance. The Russian skaters are basically robots and don't miss.

What is clear is that the minimum age for figure skating needs to be at least 17 if not 18. The Russian program is shredding little girls, leaving most with very serious injuries after only a few years of competitive skating. And there needs to be an international code of conduct for Olympic level coaches. Coaches should be held accountable for emotional abuse and physical abuse, especially when the athletes are minors.

Watching the free skate yesterday morning, a basic parody of a bad 80s Bob Dylan song I enjoy started running through my head.

They took a clean cut kid

And they made a doper out of her that’s what they did

If a test can only detect a value as low as 10 then you cannot measure a value of 2. #3 probably means the 10 ng/ml is the point of concern. The actual limit of detection is 2 or lower. Maybe newer testing is ahead of the rules which are using an outdated limit of detection.

The worst of the people who attacked this girl is USADA head Travis Tygart. He of all people should be aware of the rules and knows here test results are far below what he lets Americans get a pass on. Yet, he acted like a crazed fan boy and stated he was looking into how the USADA can sue and imprison Russia athletes regardless of the CAS ruling. He should be removed from the USADA by the board for attacking a minor. His behavior is unacceptable.

Yes, they were terrible. Lipinski tried to back it down a little yesterday, but they were cruel and had no insight. They are bashing Valieva while gushing over the other two Russians, who are coached, trained and handled by all the same people. They think Valieva decided with her grandpa to dope with this drug on her own? She dug up the Russian PDR and was like, “oh yes, this is going to give me the extra training advantage over my teammate Trusova!” What a joke. If she did dope it’s completely implausible the other two were not taking the same cocktail and just avoided detection. This never occurred to Lipinski or Weir during their righteous anti doping remarks?

As an aside, it is cool that Weir speaks Russian and can eavesdrop on the conversations.

That's true.  But he's a lawyer.  That's what lawyers do: everything necessary to win the case for their client (in this case to elevate the Team USA Silver medal to Gold).

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir are journalists.  They have an obligation to be impartial.  Tara even talked about how the adults failed Kamila.  Hello Tara?  That would be you.  She crucified the best female skater the world has ever seen because she had a test result that was five times lower than the detectable limit.  And they never even tested the B sample.  How can this happen?

That means his decisions are biased, and based on fanboyism. A horrible look for the head of a doping agency. He needs to be removed as head of the USADA. The job has gone to his head.

You are clueless with respect to the relevant law. Kamila has no grounds to prevail in a suit against NBC.

Gu and Biles are gonna sue the pants off the Letsrun message board.

This is one of the most absurd speculations on this issue expressed on this board. (And that says a lot.)

She lost the bronze medal by 9 pts. If she had been throwing the competition away, she wouldn't have been that close. It's impossible to "control" your misses so that you will finish a close 4th place.

And if she had been told to throw away the competition, her coach wouldn't have scolded her for stopping to fight.

Kamila Valieva's coach criticized the 15-year-old skater right after she fell at the Olympics: 'Why did you stop fighting?'

You flunk a test you are out.  She's 15 on banned heart medicine. This retro crap where you don't have medal ceremonies is terrible.  They delayed the test results on purpose. You have to have a deterrent. 

The test results were delayed by a lab in SWEDEN, not by Russia.

Yeah, human shield.

Where’s a good “yeah ok” gif when you need it? lol. 

It was the Russian Anti Drug Agency that announced the positive test and suspended her. Are you saying Russia was trying to humiliate Russia? Or are you saying you have no idea what you're talking about?

BS , the CAS report is out . The test will be thrown out . You are the one that is humiliated . 5 times below threshold . People like you get off by cyber bullying without any facts .

No the CAS report says she is not on anything . Her report indicates a trace substance so small ( 5 times below threshold ) that it cannot determine anything accurately . The way the USA works , getting false information to the media knowing they will report it if from an enemy country . Looking forward to the legal fallout on this .

Weir is mentally ill ,and enjoys humiliating himself . Why won’t the US media report the facts on the CAS report now . After all is said and done, BTC has more positive doping tests, than the entire 2022 Russian Olympic team .

Mother Russia loves you all very much!