Let her skate, and if she wins, the IOC will simply have to try to claw back her medals when the world isn’t so interested
“The main element was the fact if the athlete would be suspended she would not be able to participate in the Games and the damage for her would be irreparable, whereas if she competes, even if she gets the gold in the individual competition, the medal can always be withdrawn. That was apparently the reasoning,” said Denis Oswald, IOC member and chair of its disciplinary commission.
So there is no irreparable harm, right? If only that were true. A teenager tested positive for a heart medication that she could not likely have secured on her own; the harm is done. By the coach and other entourage members. By the federation. By the parents. There will be an IOC investigation of the entourage, but the alibis are already being floated.Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee in action.
It is the case again here, though the IOC’s hands were tied mainly by the teenager’s protected status and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s willingness to lift Valieva’s suspension in time for her to compete. Kamila Valieva of Team ROC waits for their score with choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz and coach Eteri Tutberidze during the Women Single Skating Short Program on day eleven of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China.“The girl is sorry. But those who led her to a positive doping test will have to answer for this,” she apparently told Sport24. “Otherwise it’s in vain. All talk about her being small and fragile is a waste of time.
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