Figure skater Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US
Figure skater Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Olympics. The verdict comes almost two years after the doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.
The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event. The United States finished second and is set to be named Olympic champion instead.
The International Olympic Committee decided not to present any medals for the event in Beijing, where the 15-year-old Valieva was the star performer hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.
CAS said it upheld appeals led by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which asked the court to disqualify Valieva from the Olympics and ban her. A Russian sports tribunal had cleared her of any blame.
Man I feel bad for her. She was only 15 and probably didn’t have much of a say in the matter. It’s the right call, but still, I do feel for her.
Imagine if she coulda won without potentially risking her health with drugs, too.
This reminds me of when Trump called a race horse a junkie after winning the Kentucky Derby and being disqualified for a failed drug test. As if the horse was tying off and shooting up in the stable outhouse.
While this child has more agency than a horse, it's not like she had a choice in the matter.
Is it right for her for be DQ'd? Yes, but she's still a victim.
Don't lose sight of the fact that she's was a child made to take drugs by her own government.
It's definitely for the best so a coach doesn't do it to another minor.
i will never understand why anyone lets russia compete in anything. they just always lie and cheat.
I mean the US and many other athletes have been caught before cheating this isn’t new. Canada the US, Sweden and, Spain just to name a few.
The issue wasn't athletes cheating individually. The issue was that Russia had a state sponsored doping program from top to bottom. That is significantly different than one off athletes, or one off coaches.
This is not just some random athletes doing it on their own here and there. There was (still is? Who knows) a Russian government run program to allow for doping and help their athletes evade monitoring from anti doping authorities. Likely at least 580 postive tests across 30 different sports covered up. Team USA doesn't even get government funding, let alone a government run doping conspiracy.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/36823453
wasn't the big deal with the Russians that it was at the level of the entire organization rather than done by limited specific individuals?
Why is racism upvoted
Isn't it more racist to act as if being Russian is a singular racial demographic?
Russia is an empire, a decaying one, but still, it's full of a wide variety of different racial groups that aren't Slavic in origin.
Also, when people criticize the actions of the American government, should we all accuse them of being racist towards... Americans?
It's not.
That took a long fucking time. Opposed to the US sprinter who tested positive for a non-performance enhancing drug (weed) and was giving a suspension just 9 days after initial test results. Keeping her from even going to her games.
This girl had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and was still allowed to compete. So they could take the next two years to get their shit together. Look I know she was 15 and probably had a choice on where to take them, but that doesn't justify the wildly different responses.
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Hmm.
One has slightly higher melanin than the other. Surely, that couldn’t contribute to the difference in results there.
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with the Fact that Russia is known to bribe and Sports Organizations are known to get bribed.
Well weed is not allowed so it should be treated in the same way
But it wasn't. Sha'Carri Richardson had her suspension handed to her much much faster. Additional Valieva took away the other competitors chance to stand in metal ceremony positions they deserved. That is something that can never be given back.
it should be treated in the same way
So they should have been allowed to compete and then take 2 years to figure it out?
Imagine winning the gold medal two years after you lost it. Imagine trying to explain the celebration party to people and them not caring or believing you.
I imagine that does undercut the excitement on some level.
Like, it's an amazing achievement nonetheless, but like... the wind's already gone. Sail's empty.
Ban Russia forever. They deserve it.
The only title they are worthy of is “weak” and/or “cheater”.
I don't think they should be banner "forever", but definitely increasing lengths the more this goes on.
They should also have to pay a lot of concessions to other nations if they want back in.
We can ban Russia but let individuals that met and test international standards compete
I see you've spawned a heated argument. I know this post is old but I have a different take:
Don't ban Russia. It's just athletics, it's not that big of a deal. All athletes should get the chance to compete even if they live in countries that encourage their cheating. Ban the cheaters and their coaches when they are exposed.
Perhaps ask Russia to pay a fine if they wish to continue to send athletes. This would dissuade them from forcing their young adults/teens to alter their body chemistry.
The Olympics is supposed to be somewhere every country can participate.
The Olympics is supposed to be somewhere every country can participate.
Yes that's the line the Olympic committee always trot out as well when anybody is ever asking them to make a decision on anything. They always argue that the Olympics is not political, but refusing to take a political stance is itself a political stance.
Continuing to allow Russia to compete even when they cheat constantly (because it is basically all the time it's not one or two athletes it's basically everyone they send) is itself saying that cheating is acceptable if you get away with it. It's like the cost of doing business for Russia.
Isn't that like racism?
Should have happened during the Olympics, but the IOC gave the Russians the win.
Yeah, like you don't get that moment back, standing on the podium while your national anthem plays.
I feel really bad for this girl. Disqualifying her was the right move, but I highly doubt a fifteen-year-old representing Russia in the Olympics was given much choice as to whether she wanted to use performance enhancers or not. On top of that, she got four year ban from professional skating, which basically robbed her of her peak professional years. Her career was basically destroyed by something that was, best case senerio, a mistake she made at fifteen or, wost (and more likely) case, something that was forced on her by her trainers/managers.
Wow this is the first time ever I've heard of Russia cheating on something because they couldn't win from skill alone.
/S
A Russian caught doping? At the Olympics??
They really need to step up their game, everyone else knows how not to get caught.
Boycott these worthless games.
I strongly disagree. The Olympics are one of the best things humanity does. Are the people running it corrupt scum? Pretty much. But the Olympics are one of the only times the whole world comes together to at least attempt to do something positive.
Also, have you ever watched the 49 kg (108 lb) women’s weightlifting competition? They look like ants lifting multiple times their body weight. It’s fucking awesome.
Man, all these world class athletes from Russia have these horrible heart conditions at such young ages!
Must be something in the water...
Just another dirty Russian cheater, second only to china’s culture of cheating/theft.
This poor girl was undoubtedly forced into taking the meds, ruining her future.
Why on earth would they try doping? They know that people are tested, I don't get how they think that's going to work. They either need to stop cheating, or they need to get much better at it.
I can't imagine how the Canadian team is feeling with their medal chances on limbo over these two years
If you play any game with ruskies you learn this: ruskies always cheating, stealing, scamming.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.
The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event.
The International Olympic Committee decided not to present any medals for the event in Beijing, where the 15-year-old Valieva was the star performer hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.
There was “no basis under the rules to treat them any differently from an adult athlete,” said the court, which did not publish its detailed verdict pending a review of confidentiality issues.
The case provoked legal chaos at the Olympics because Valieva’s sample, taken six weeks earlier at the Russian national championships, was not notified by a laboratory in Sweden until hours after she competed in the team event on Feb. 7, 2022.
The reaction of her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, was fiercely criticized by skating experts and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.
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The amount of anti-Russia comments on account of a known issue in competitive sports is disturbing. Does everything nowadays have to be about either “Russia bad” or “China bad”? Can’t it be about how exceptionally talented young people are pressured into doping because of ever increasing and often impossible to reach performance standards? I feel we have collectively lost a sense of measure in our response and have replaced a global outlook seeing global solutions to global problems with a nationalistic and sectarian us vs them attitude. And shudder to think that inside those countries it is exactly the same in reverse, possibly worse even.
She did not inhale!