Authur said "a stranger," he didn't say a Chinese volunteer or a Chinese, approached Alysa. More likely another athlete in the cafeteria was looking for a date than any conspiracy.
Putin seems to have made up his mind to occupy Ukraine and even take away its statehood, which means sporting sanctions will remain for a long time. Hope ISU would allow Russian skaters to compete as an independent or represent other countries next season with no waiting period and permission...
How will these events affect the Valieva doping investigation? RUADA will do nothing and WADA can’t do anything to follow up. The team medals may forever be decided.
There's some truth in Russian's take that you Americans can take tons of trimetazidine but still cannot land the quads. You need talent and hard work to be a skater like Valieva.
No such rules. There were instances of ceremonies with missing medalist/medalists in the Olympics by protest and other excuses (eg, USA basketball team protesting their silver medals. Iranian medalist used sick excuse to avoid standing with Israel medalist).
Team ROC is under doping...
Arthur did sound a bit sour grape and I don't think he has definitive evidence. Kamila may dope or may be doped but there's still a possibility Anna and Sasha didn't dope. I remain amazed at them and their skills.
Here you go. All 220 US Olympians tell IOC that they want US Figure Skating Team get their medals and celebrate their win in Beijing. https://twitter.com/USOPC_AAC/status/1493439026044436480/photo/1
Simple logic. Getting your silver and bronze now on site will make not harm to getting your gold or silver later off site, comparing to getting your gold or silver later off site. What if the final ruling were ROC retain their gold and USA and JPN get their silver and bronze? IOC's decision just...
Just the opposite. A medal ceremony w/o the gold winner is a clear message to the world that ROC is under doping investigation, which the best punishment to them under the circumstance.
I think the athletes would prefer to be awarded their silver and bronze now in Beijing and re-awarded the gold, silver and bronze later at home should the investigation confirm ROC's wrongdoing.
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