I honestly share their frustration because this situation reflects so horribly on figure skating in general.
Maybe this is where we see the situation a bit differently. I just don't think we should, at this point in time and with the amount of information we have, go to the lengths that Tara, Johnny and Adam and some other personalities go.
In my view they have been making the situation worse than it is (which is admittedly very bad already). Why did they, for example, have to claim that allowing KV to skate robbed all clean athletes of their Olympic experience, shattered their faith in FS, broke their hearts and so on? A Swedish skater (sorry I keep on talking about Swedes, I was catching up on the local news today) said in today's interview that while she thinks the KV situation is upsetting, it did not take anything away from her personal olympic experience and in her opinion it does not cast shadow on the glory of the Olympic moment (my translation). That's just one perspective to illustrate that maybe it's not entirely correct of Johnny to be speaking on behalf of all figure skaters and defending those that may very well feel like they do not need any defence or sympathy.
What else, their solemn discussions about figure skating having been forever tainted, Requiem for a dream being is the only appropriate soundtrack for today and so on - maybe it's cultural differences but this just feels disproportionate. They have every right to express their thoughts and be critical, but in my opinion, this is taking it too far. Yes, it was controversial to let Kamila skate (and did a great disservice to her) BUT she is participating on very restrictive terms, and she will bear the responsibility once the investigation is completed. I understand they want to see KV, TeamTut and Russia paying for what they've done here and now, but formal rules and legal guarantees mean that even the worst of criminals are not convicted and punished instantly.
Moving on, saying that allowing KV to skate encourages doping of underage skaters - I don't agree with this either. Who would want to put themselves through such an ordeal and be a subject to such humiliation and hate? I also feel it is wrong to drag Sasha and Anna in the mud and speculating that they are also not clean.
I also think it is hypocritical claiming their concern for KV being a minor. Yes they do not encourage putting the blame om Kamila and bullying her, and yet indirectly they do, due to the amount of outrage they stimulate. They don't judge Kamila - and yet subtly they do, for example when Tara was stating that being only 13 she was already very mindful of what she consumed.
I don't want to dissect their every argument and statement, some of them I even support, but if you look at the whole picture, the commentating of the event, the dramatic instagram stories with a black background, the hashtags they use and promote, the countless twitter posts full of disgust, the insinuations implicating Anna and Sascha, the interrogations of every skater about KV and so on and so forth - this whole picture does not feel reasonable, fair and humane, to me.
And if her team was doing their job correctly, there will be nothing forbidden in the supplements. Or ‘grandpa’s meds’
Six multipled by four!??). Because if Kamila were suspended, USA would get gold and Canada bronze... so let's just be real about what is behind all those media news. Unlike North America's media, there is no conflict of interest in Europe(ans media), so people can keep a common sense there # sorry, not sorry
