Kamila Valieva allowed to compete

With all the skill that's required for speed and complexity of her routines, I'd have thought that any drug would be potentially dangerous.

Valieva finishes 4th. May mean fewer investigations into the rest of the Russian team.

Very sad to see, it looked as if the pressure got to her, fell a few times and very emotional. V. young, surely given the controversy they could have let her go home, she'll only be 19 mext time around.

Yes she should have gone home. Re the other Russians - I don't trust any of them to be drug free. They should never have been allowed to compete.

I do wonder whether Kamila was instructed to fall over enough times to come fourth and not be in line for a medal.

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I do wonder whether Kamila was instructed to fall over enough times to come fourth and not be in line for a medal.

I did wonder that as well. Otherwise there would have been no medal ceremony for any of the Russians. Who knows what ‘advice’ she was given.
The first couple of tumbles looked quite simple, but I think her nerves got to her later on. I hope she didn’t hurt herself.
She should have been made/allowed to go home.

I look at my two 15 year old granddaughters and know how heartbroken they’d be if they’d worked so hard and then fallen over. My heart goes out to this young and vulnerable girl who has been used and abused.
The powers that be in Russia are a disgrace.

I agreed with Robin Cousins when he said he just wanted to take her away from it all. How did it take so long to get that test result? And having got the result why didn't they stop then, we'd already seen how brilliant she was, we could have looked forward to seeing her in the future. Heaven knows what future she'll have now. They'll probably drop her and bring out another girl.

I think they shouldn’t allow people under a certain age to compete. It is a form of abuse. When I said that to DH he said that Christopher Dean had said the same thing earlier in the afternoon but I don’t know if he mentioned a specific age.

I watched this as I ate my breakfast this morning . Tears in my porridge - poor wee girl .

It was utterly appalling. That child will never recover from that.

Her instructors rather than comforting her, in fact berated her.

She has been used and abused.

And now we hear that Chijindu Ujah faces being stripped of his Tokyo silver medal, ( happened last year but was just on the radio now), and possibly the whole 4x4 team losing their medals for a his doping offence. I’m not disputing that, but one rule for 1 team and another for Russia?

Russia is notorious for producing young female skaters who are an absolute sensation for a year or so and then disappear without trace. That poor child has been absolutely broken and allowing her to skate has been worse than if she had been suspended. According to the rules it doesn’t matter whether whatever was in her system was there accidentally or not but Russia seems to get away with murder.