Not score attainment. It's the moment of knowing that you won. One is pride and the other is true joy. But sure there is a debate on what is the bigger moment. Just the drama is really laughably ridiculous I would say.
Agreed. I think another more common translation would be "floating around somewhere"
I wonder how many Russians who were stripped of their medals (43 since 2022) actually care about the indignity of having their medals stripped compared to the glory/feeling of the Olympic win and getting a medal for Russia (or any doped athlete for that matter). Like, it's "worth the risk".
Wow, so 45 days is the difference between "irreparable harm" as a minor and having to meet the consequences as an adult.
Alysa aside, one positive test kind of does call all the negative ones into question, actually - though it is not, of course, proof that she has always been doping, that simply cannot be provided. With this type of doping, you usually microdose carefully so that the drug gets flushed out of the system before the test. Because the human body isn't a perfect machine, however, this sometimes doesn't work even if you're good at predicting the timing. So her negative tests, like everybody else's negative tests, are not necessarily proof of them not doping, they could also show that the doping was done well; whereas the positive test is actually proof that she had a restricted substance in her system (unless they can somehow show that there was unwilling contamination, like the case with the make-up).
This is just silly. So let's have disgusting crimes passably committed on "almost 16" year olds then? These barrier numbers are never perfect but they should be respected. Kamila is a Protected Person under the existing rules simple as that.
I hope none of them are too foolish, because figure skating does not need any more drama or scandals, especially at these Olympics. But I wouldn't be surprised if, even with pristine programs, she falls several points short of her current records. And if she makes mistakes, that easily provides an opening for penalization. If Hanyu can get a shockingly low (for him) PCS score in what may be his final competitive performance, I don't know that they'll be protecting Valieva after everything that has happened.
Well, i expected this to happen after RUSSADA decided not to charge Kamila. I didn't expect so many hatred comments, but people need to project hate they have somewhere i guess... It's a common sense that if Russians were sure Kamila is intentionally doped, they wouldn't let her to compete, because that wouldn't change anything for them. They will still have their gold medalist and they will still have the first girl landing a quad at Oly, only her name would be different... And even if CAS decided that Kamila or someone around her broke the clean sport rules, I bet her suspension would be very short. Chinese swimmer was suspended only for 3 months, and USA swimmer only for 6 months for the same substance. The problem with the substance founded in Kamila's blood that another substance which is used for migraine can give a false positive test. And Kamila's tests were negative both at Europeans, this Olympics and during GP circuit. As i said before, some people's narrative that somebody must be guilty without a chance to prove otherwise is just beyond my look at humans nature, but i guess Freud was right after all
