Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. For more on Kamila Valieva, listen below to our daily podcast on PEOPLE Every Day. "[39][40] The Kremlin responded that "harshness of a coach in high-level sport is key for their athletes to achieve victories" and that Tutberidze's athletes were seeing strong results. Anna Shcherbakova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the event, and her teammate, Alexandra Trusova, the silver medal. "I don't have the big jumps as others would have, which is a big handicap," she told reporters after, the Associated Press reports. Russia's Aleksandra Trusova won silver with a score of 251.73 and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto took bronze with 233.13. Sakamotos moment, however, was sadly overshadowed by the drama occurring with the Russian squad, including the week-long pressure cooker of the event as the skating community has been up in arms over the fact that Valieva was allowed to compete despite the failed drug test. Thats just scratching the surface. By OlympicTalk. Check out these full results for Winter Olympics Skating events . Former American Olympic figure skater Polina Edmunds commented on the situation as well: Very traumatizing Olympic experience for Kamila Valieva. Elon Musk thinks were close to solving AI. Uno Shoma captures first Grand Prix Final title, winning ninth career GP gold, Mihara Mai storms to Grand Prix Final win on debut, capping trio of GP golds this season, Charlne Guignard / Marco Fabbri (ITA) 206.84, Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (USA) 198.06, Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Srensen (CAN) 196.15, Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore (AUS) 181.37, Sophia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev (USA) 176.78, Murakami Haruna / Moriguchi Sumitada (JPN) 149.03, Violetta Sierova / Ivan Khobta (UKR) 143.06, Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher (CAN) 130.89, Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont (CAN) 167.26, Katerina Mrazova / Daniel Mrazek (CZE) 161.54, Phebe Bekker / James Hernandez (GBR) 156.97, Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy (GER) 152.01, Celina Fradji / Jean-Hans Fourneaux (FRA) 140.71, Figure Skating | Grand Prix Final | Torino, Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier (USA) 213.28, Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps (CAN) 184.28, Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini (ITA) 180.39, Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe (USA) 162.91. While anti-doping rules are in place, and the punishments for athletes who violate them are clear, ultimately the enforcement falls largely to different countries anti-doping agencies. For a complete list of figure skating records, see, Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics Women's singles, 25 skaters advanced to the free skating rather than 24 due to. The United States arrived in Beijing with hopes of a medal in women's figure skating, but it didn't come to fruition, as Alysa Liu, Mariah Bell and Karen Chen were all playing catch up after the short program. Oops. Just a disaster for her. [66], On 15 February, after the women's short program, The New York Times reported that Valieva's sample tested positive for an additional two substances, hypoxen and L-Carnitine, which are not on the banned list, in addition to trimetazidine. [67] By the end of the Beijing Olympics, a total five athletes were reported for doping violations. Alysa Liu, also skating for the first time this Games, fared a little better, finishing with a technical of 36.85 after earning 10.7 7 for her triple lutz, triple toe loop combination. Yahoo Sport Australia, "Spanish skater caught in shock new scandal after Winter Olympics." Such a decline has been the subject of much scrutiny within the sport. Kamila Valieva has a meltdown on the ice, falling and stumbling on jump after jump. 0:00. Trusova left Tutberidze in 2020 to train with Evgeni Plushenko and left Plushenko in May 2021 to reunite and train with Tutberidze heading into the Olympics. [13] WADA's filing in Valieva's hearing indicated that her acknowledgement of taking the two permitted substances undercut her testimony that the banned substance was ingested by error. "But this is incredibly unfortunate to potentially influence her, and given her age, she's probably not making all these decisions on her own.". ET . In recent years, skating broadcasts have made it super easy for casual fans to follow along with the routine. But Im always going to be one to stick up for clean sport, and clean athletes. Though the Olympic womens event wrapped up on Thursday, the drama, controversy, and investigation surrounding Russias team show no signs of stopping. A few athletes made general references about supporting "clean sport" and a "level playing field". Shimada Mao got the better of Shin Ji-a again to take the women's singles title at the 2023 ISU . Kamila Valieva, Russian score inflation, and a teammates full-blown temper tantrum. The following is the competition schedule for all five events. The following first achievements set during this competition. Winter Olympics recap: US men's curling loses bronze medal game; Eileen Gu wins third medal in Beijing. Watch the Winter Olympics, now, and the Paralympics, beginning March 4, on NBC. Why I was angry, why I was disappointed for the first time I skated with five quadruples, I waited for this moment for a long time. Trusova won the free program, but since the overall results combine the short, in which she was fourth, and free program scores, she ended up in second for the silver. Valieva earned a score of 90.18, putting her a wide distance ahead of Japan's Wakaba Higuchi. Kaori Sakamoto in seventh was the highest non-Russian skater on the list. Russia Olympic Committee (ROC) figure skater Kamila Valieva, who is at the center of a doping scandal, finished in fourth place in the women's individual figure skating event with 224.09 points. I hate this sport, I hate it! Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who . But technical skills arent the only part of the score, and Trusovas teammate Anna Shcherbakova showed why. Given the protests to her skating in the first place, the IOC probably was relieved she didnt place so as to avoid another round of controversy about the medal ceremony. [63], On 14 February, the CAS declined to reinstate Valieva's provisional suspension and ruled that she would be allowed to compete in the womens singles event. "Without a doubt, she would be an incredible athlete without any performance aid and who knows if she's gotten any performance aid from these, if indeed she is taking them," Dr. Sean Heffron, a preventative cardiologist at NYU Langone's Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, told PEOPLE. lang, Bell skated almost entirely clean though her lack of the most complicated technical elements held her back, ending with a free skate score of 136.92. Part of Valieva's attorney's argument in her defense was that the banned drug entered her body accidentally and likely belonged to her grandfather, as he takes trimetazidine, according to Russian website The Dossier Center, USA Today reported. Under the cloud of Valievas doping controversy and Trusovas post-medal fireworks, there was also skating that happened. #NBCOlympics #WinterOlympics2022 #FigureSkating Subscribe to NBC Sports: https://www.youtube.com/nbcsports?sub_confirmation=1 Watch live Olympic coverage on NBCOlympics.com: https://www.nbcolympics.com/scheduleVisit NBCOlympics.com: https://www.nbcolympics.comWatch the 2022 Winter Olympics on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/olympicsDownload the NBC Olympics App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nbc-sports/id542511686Find NBC Olympics on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nbcolympicsFollow NBC Olympics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NBCOlympicsFollow NBC Olympics on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nbcolympicsNBC Sports Group serves sports fans 24/7 with premier live events, insightful studio shows, and compelling original programming. "Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. Taking a stance that all athletes should be competing clean and that officials should enforce rules that doped athletes should be suspended and prevented from competing, is hardly controversial. While her program components scores were considerably lower than those of the Japanese and Korean skaters, her high-scoring jumps were enough to surge her more than 30 points ahead of the field before her Russian teammates competed. She had been in first after the . newsletter. The Beijing Winter Olympic women's figure skating medalists (from left) after Thursday's free skate: Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova of the Russian Olympic Committee and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto. March 7, 2022. [2][3] From the 202122 season, the International Skating Union renamed "ladies' singles" as "women's singles". I need a drink!, Read more: Quadruple Jumps Are Transforming Womens Figure Skating. [26][27] Some commenting on the situation suggested that blame should not rest with the 15-year-old Valieva, but rather with the Russian system and the coaches and doctors around her. And this all is punctuated by Trusovas teary-eyed tantrum about Tutberidze knowing everything and Tutberidze reportedly telling Trusova this is your defeat.. "Kamila Valiyeva could be banned through 2026 Winter Olympics". Valieva was thrust into the spotlight during these Games after it was revealed she had reportedly tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in December. I realized I was caught up in this, and I was not going to skirt around the answer, but I was just going to come out and say it, You were caught drug cheating and Im not a fan.'. Never," she said. I am not happy with the result. 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The year Liu won her first national championship, at age 13, Liu became the first U.S. woman to land a quadruple jump in competition, but has since grown several inches and struggled to retain her early jumping skills. Antidoping officials called the discovery of multiple substances in any athlete's sample "highly unusual", particularly in an athlete as young as Valieva. The short program was held on 15 February. 0:58. Karen Chen, who ended her second Olympics in 16th place, continued to struggle with the triple loop jump; its been her most inconsistent jump throughout the team competition and short program as well. ROC was the only delegation to qualify the maximum number of entries (3 spots per discipline for 18 athletes total). 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Women. Anna Shcherbakova, the 2021 world champion, will be the Olympic gold medalist when the judges marks come in. Each NOC can enter a maximum of 18 athletes, with a maximum of nine men or nine women. She's been nominated for the ASME NEXT Awards for Journalists Under 30, and previously wrote for Us Weekly while on staff at Wenner Media. [30] The Russian government and community remained steadfast in their support for Valieva; the Kremlin first referred to the situation as a "misunderstanding", and later issued the following statement: "We boundlessly and fully support Kamila Valieva and call on everyone to support her. Two other women are expected to attempt quads as well - ROC's Anna Shcherbakova (80.20) and Aleksandra Trusova (74.60). Her teammate, Anna Shcherbakova, who skated a clean and tremendous free program to earn gold, hardly looked like a newly crowned Olympic champion as she stood alone backstage, hugging a stuffed animal, for several minutes while the officials from the entire Russian skating team focused on comforting Valieva, who began sobbing in the kiss and cry after seeing her scores and realizing she was in fourth place, off the Olympic podium on which she was expected to stand atop. The decision was made by an independent sports arbitration court, but was almost universally criticized by past Olympians, including NBC commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, who called Valeveas presence in the competition a slap in the face to the clean athletes and to the Olympic movement. [60] Following formal appeals lodged by the IOC, the International Skating Union (ISU), and WADA to review RUSADA DAC's decision, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) heard the case on 13 February, and removal of her provisional suspension was upheld on 14 February, ahead of her scheduled appearance in the women's singles event beginning 15 February.