coaches, team doctors, etc.). Thats just scratching the surface. 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. You can't do it this way! "I can't imagine how tough this has been on Kamila and it makes me angry that the adults around her weren't able to make better decisions and guide her and be there for her, because she's the one now dealing with the consequences and she's just 15 and that's not fair," she said. "Interview with Travis Tygart (USADA, Kamila Valieva Doping, Russian Doping)". But well, this was not happening for a long time. Just a disaster for her. Amid a firestorm of controversy, Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee shockingly failed to medal in women's singles figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Thursday. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. The medal ceremony for the team event, where the ROC won gold, originally scheduled for 8 February, was delayed over what International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams described as a situation that required "legal consultation" with the International Skating Union. More On: Outraged silver medalist Alexandra Trusova felt robbed of the gold in women's figure skating after her Russian Olympic Committee teammate Kamila Valieva's disastrous performance . #NBCOlympics #WinterOlympics2022 #FigureSkating Subscrib. Prior to the competition, the existing ISU best scores were: No new best scores were set during this competition. Russian Olympic Committee teammate Alexandra Trusova, 17, and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto (who won silver and bronze, respectively) were both seen crying. South Korea's Yuna Kim, the 2010 Olympic champion, . [10][11] As a result, the IOC decided that, should Valieva win a medal, there would be no flower ceremony or medal ceremony held until the investigation into her doping case is over and there is a concrete decision whether or not to strip her of her medals. Meanwhile Anna Shcherbakova, also of the ROC, was blank-faced and distant immediately after emerging as the gold-medal winner, instead of Valieva. The last gold-medal winner was Sarah Hughes, in 2002. [68] By 9 March 2022, Tygart of the USADA further reported that Valieva had not requested that her "B" sample be tested, apparently accepting the results of initial testing and relying on her explanation that the banned substance trimetazidine belonged to her grandfather and only accidentally contaminated or became mixed into her own use of allowed nutrients and supplements. She should not have been allowed to compete, its devastating that she was put in this situation, on all levels. .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}* Skaters who only competed in the short program/rhythm dance. Skater Alexandra Trusova reacts to the women's individual event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. 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Watch the Winter Olympics, now, and the Paralympics, beginning March 4, on NBC. 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. Never," she said. Ultimately, however, the Court of Arbitration for Sport determined she could keep competing, citing in part the fact that she was still a minor. Even though we like to feel and say that everyone has an equal chance when you step on the ice, depending on the warm-up group youre in, depending on your past titles and medals, and depending on your history, you already have a set point that you start out at, Edmunds told me. It was a physical reminder, as if the competitors needed one, of the unprecedented situation in which they found themselves. Shcherbakova would know that she needed to hit at least one if not both quads to keep up with Trusovas technical score and remain in the hunt for the medal. In the free skate, she notched a 175.75, bringing her total to . "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. 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On 15 February, after the short program, competitors asked about Valieva in the mixed zone largely tried to distance themselves from the situation, indicating that they preferred to focus on their own performances. AFP via Getty Images The positive test didn't come to light until after the Russian Olympic Committee won team gold in figure skating in Beijing. I hate it. "Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. v. t. e. Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. [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. Edmunds says that Shcherbakova is actually a skater that appears to look like a ballerina, but as soon as she starts moving, you can tell that shes not trained and that a lot of her movements are very unaesthetic and unappealing., Trusova, similarly, is known in the sport as an athletic jumper, and her free skate tends to resemble something more along the lines of a warmup to music than a routine; jump after jump, with not much artistry in between. Second-time Olympian Karen Chen, performing her free skate to "Butterfly Lovers" by Takako Nishizaki, continued to struggle in the individual event. It's just the third figure skating team event at the Winter Olympics since it was implemented in 2014. I hate this sport. In her free skate on Thursday, Valieva made a number of uncharacteristic mistakes, slipping and falling all across the ice, and ended in fourth with 224.09 points. The controversy over that decision and pressure on the young teen as all eyes focused on her and the entire world questioned her abilities, took their toll as she fell on three of her seven jumping passes and ended up in fourth place. ** Skaters who only competed in the free skating/dance. Magazines, The Russian School at the Center of the Controversial Beijing Olympics Womens Figure Skating Event, confident, controlled skater the world saw in the team event, Quadruple Jumps Are Transforming Womens Figure Skating. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. The Russian skater whose story dominated the Olympics struggled in her . 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. ", Shortly after she finished her skate, she spoke even more bluntly. 2022 World Figure Skating Championships in Montpellier, France, top 10 and notable results Women Gold: Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) 236.09 Silver: Loena Hendrickx (BEL) 217.70 [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. This was not how women's figure skating was supposed to end at the Beijing Winter Olympics. In 2018, Canada took gold, followed by Olympic Athletes from Russia and USA once again in third. Trusova won the free skate and became the first woman to land five quadruple jumps in the same program. ", "Welcome to the Swiss Olympic Team @Beijing2022", " -2022, ", "U.S. NBC Sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), probably breathing a sigh of relief, was allowed to conduct a medal ceremony for the top three finishers: Russias Anna Shcherbakova (gold) and Alexandra Trusova (silver); and Japans Kaori Sakamoto (bronze). ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2022 results. The following National Olympic Committees earned spots to compete, with the number of athletes in parentheses. "I don't have the big jumps as others would have, which is a big handicap," she told reporters after, the Associated Press reports. Outside medical experts told PEOPLE that seemed "highly unlikely" and that the use of the drug could have given her body a small but crucial improvement. Two other women are expected to attempt quads as well - ROC's Anna Shcherbakova (80.20) and Aleksandra Trusova (74.60). Having produced every Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter Olympics since Salt Lake City in 2002, the networks of NBCUniversal are synonymous with the Games in the United States. The Skating Lesson. Shimada Mao soars to world junior title. NBCUniversal has the U.S. media rights on all platforms to all Olympic Games through 2032. Over the past 16 days of the Winter . 148 athletes from 32 NOCs are expected to participate. 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. [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. [16], In mid-November, WADA requested that CAS take up the review of the Valieva case with an eye towards a 4-year suspension of Valieva, which would exclude her from competition at the next Winter Olympics, and to rescind her first place performance in the team event at the previous Beijing Olympics because, "the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) did not meet a WADA-imposed Nov. 4 deadline to deliver a verdict on Valieva's case. In the past, Trusova has expressed frustration with her sport and the judging, and elaborated in Beijing by saying I was trying to achieve some lofty goals, to have more quadruple jumps. [41] Tutberidze herself claimed to be "at a loss from the assessment of our work by the esteemed Mr Bach" in a comment on an Instagram post by fellow ROC coach Alexander Zhulin. But technical skills arent the only part of the score, and Trusovas teammate Anna Shcherbakova showed why. Women. Heres how it all went down. The women's singles competition in figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February (short program) and 17 February (free skating), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Haidian District of Beijing. But their reactions were for very different reasons: Trusova with viscerally unhappy to come in second place despite her astonishing athletic ability to land quadruple jumps unlike any other women's skater on Earth. All the results from the GP Final and Junior GP Final held in Turin, Italy, from 8-11 December 2022. . While U.S. figure skaters have historically been dominant in the women's individual event earning about a third of the medals since the modern Olympics began more than a century ago no American has made it onto the podium since 2006, when Sasha Cohen took silver in Italy. It states that if Valieva finished in the top three, there would be no medals awarded in the womens event. After an earlier bright spot with her free in the team event, her final skate in Beijing was hamstrung by mistakes, including a fall on a jump. Valieva received a provisional suspension, and it initially looked as though she would not be permitted to take part in women's singles at the Olympics, but the suspension was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Now its all about Trump. On 8 February, a day after the ROC victory in the team event, a positive test result for trimetazidine from the Russian Championships in December for Kamila Valieva of the ROC was released by a Swedish lab, and her participation at the Olympics became subject to a doping investigation. A few athletes made general references about supporting "clean sport" and a "level playing field". In her free skate on Thursday, Valieva made a number of uncharacteristic mistakes, slipping and falling all across the ice, and ended in fourth with 224.09 points. In sharp contrast to the confident, controlled skater the world saw in the team event last week, before the news of her doping violation was made public, Valieva struggled to make it through each element, stumbling out of her first jump, a triple Axel, and putting her hand down on the ice to steady herself just as she did in the short program. 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. I personally dont understand why athletes are scared to speak up, Olympic swimmer Lilly King, tells TIME. According to NBC Sports, Trusova initially said she would not participate in a podium ceremony as the silver medalist. In a way, however, their silence could be perpetuating the problem. An additional five quota spots have been made available for, first host qualification, then if any are remaining, the team event. Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics. ET . A total of 144 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Skater Anna Shcherbakova reacts to the women's individual event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. See Which Countries Have Won Medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics So Far. But Im always going to be one to stick up for clean sport, and clean athletes. Of those six, Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova, and Alexandra Trusova were selected for the Olympics. Former American Olympic figure skater Polina Edmunds commented on the situation as well: Very traumatizing Olympic experience for Kamila Valieva. Lease and Edmunds explained to me, separately, that skaters like Trusova and Shcherbakovas teammate Valieva, or Japans Sakamoto and Wakaba Higuchi all possess markedly better skating skills (that should be rewarded in their PCS numbers). In its decision, the CAS stated that preventing "the Athlete from competing at the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm in these circumstances". ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images, Watch more top videos, highlights, and B/R original content, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. She probably saw the jumps that Trusova threw and knew her score. A former skater who asked that their name not be used described Trusovas skating as so unpleasant., Experts like Dave Lease, who runs the skating analysis YouTube Channel The Skating Lesson, tell me theyve questioned how the judges have marked Trusova and Shcherbakova, both in PCS and grade of execution of her jumps. Here is a rundown of the top 10 finishers in the event, courtesy of NBCOlympics.com: A Russian podium sweep seemed almost certain when Valieva became the final skater to take the ice Thursday, but she struggled through a disastrous performance with multiple falls, as Christine Brennan of USA Today described: Wow. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics continue with medal events in cross-country skiing, curling, and figure skating. Antidoping officials called the discovery of multiple substances in any athlete's sample "highly unusual", particularly in an athlete as young as Valieva. Kamila Valieva, Russian score inflation, and a teammates full-blown temper tantrum. Valieva dominated the Olympic season, winning every competition she entered and with her lowest international score still over 10 points higher than that of any of her competitors. Stolz, a phenom who honed his . For several moments the 17-year-old remained alone in an off-rink area, seemingly lost in herself or too stunned for feeling. 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. Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. [64][65] The IOC announced that the team event medal ceremony, as well as the women's singles flower ceremony and medal ceremony if Valieva were to medal, would not take place until the investigation is over, and there is a concrete decision whether to strip Valieva and the ROC of their medals. According to former skaters, insiders, and experts, those Program Component Scores are arguably inflated. You knew everything! The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 26 January 2022. [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. For more on Kamila Valieva, listen below to our daily podcast on PEOPLE Every Day. Such a decline has been the subject of much scrutiny within the sport. Shcherbakova, who had a six-point lead after the short program, skated after Trusova. At the press conference afterward, she said I did what I could. [4], A total of five events were contested, one for men, one for women and three mixed.[5]. A PCS tally has five categories: skating skills, transitions, performance, composition, and interpretation of the music. She's worked at PEOPLE for over seven years as a writer, reporter and editor across our Entertainment, Lifestyle and News teams, covering everything from the Super Bowl to the Met Gala. 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. Please enter a valid email and try again. "Interview with Travis Tygart (USADA, Kamila Valieva Doping, Russian Doping)". On the issue of the disqualification of participating athletes at the Winter Olympics, the ISU has issued a statement regarding its policy regarding doping violations which may be alleged for the duration of the events of the Games stating that the, "International Skating Union cannot disclose any information about a possible anti-doping rule violation. Tygart further stated that as a minor Valieva could still be either fully exculpated or given a warning concerning her testing positive depending on the extent of findings in the on-going RUSADA investigation of doping. I always try to reach a goal, I always add more quads," Trusova told reporters, according to Reuters. Valieva was expected to finish among the top three, prompting the IOCs decision about postponing the medals ceremony. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. [69], Although Russia as a country is currently banned from participating in international skating events due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Valieva has continued to compete within Russian borders without being hindered by RUSADA as recently as the Russian Grand Prix held in October 2022. 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. Mariah Bell and Alysa Liu, both first-time Olympians, fared the best out of the American skaters. For the Russian gold and silver medalists, this artistry has traditionally been lacking. She reportedly did not speak with the press afterward. 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.'. Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after competing in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17 . In terms of quality, youre always looking for skaters with the most speed, skaters that show a lot of power, but at the same time are able to do intricate footwork and turn and toe steps that use real skating tricks on the ice rather than just skating and pushing on two feet or being super plain, or skating but only using only your arms in movements, Polina Edmunds, a former US Olympian and US National silver medalist, told me after Tuesdays short program. Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, called the combination of three heart medications a "trifecta of substances[which] seem to be aimed at increasing endurance, reducing fatigue and promoting greater efficiency in using oxygen". 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After entering the free skate in 13th place from the short program, Bell, 25, finished in 10th place with a total of 202.30. [43][44], By 9 March 2022, Travis Tygart of the USADA reported that Valieva had not requested that her "B" sample be tested, apparently accepting the results of initial testing and relying on her explanation that the banned substance TMZ belonged to her grandfather and only accidentally contaminated or became mixed into her own use of allowed nutrients and supplements. You are a Russian perform and defeat everybody!"[31][32][33]. Czech siblings Mrazkova/Mrazek lead after ice dance rhythm dance. Figure Skating . The BarDown Podcast. Elon Musk thinks were close to solving AI. Trusova, the bronze medalist from the European championships, already made history as the first woman to land a number of different quadruple jumps and made it her mission to match the men in the sport by landing five quadruples using four different types of jumps in her free program at an Olympics, as Nathan Chen did when winning his gold. tools Create account Log Pages for logged out editors learn more ContributionsTalk Navigation Main pageContentsCurrent eventsRandom articleAbout WikipediaContact usDonate Contribute HelpLearn editCommunity portalRecent changesUpload file Tools What links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkPage informationCite this pageWikidata item. Sign up to our news and offers. Shcherbakova and Trusova have a tendency to pre-rotate their jumps (i.e., rotate before theyre in the air), a shortcut to getting a high number of revolutions, but this technical deficiency is not often reflected in how their jumps are scored. [1], A total of 144 quota spots were distributed to the sport of figure skating, a decline of four from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. She and her teammates, who train at the same Moscow skating school, were the only women in the competition attempting quadruple jumps. Heading into the womens event, the big story was whether or not Valieva would win a medal.
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