Tag: Kamila Valieva
over 1 year ago
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Opinion | What does a sports doping scandal matter in the face of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine...

Eight months after the Beijing Olympics, figure skater Kamila Valieva’s case still remains pathetically unresolved, a...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | This was the saddest Olympics ever. It was a symphony of bad

Kamila Valieva’s notoriously cruel coach berated her on camera. The child wept. That was the image that will linger, ...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | IOC president Thomas Bach’s tough talk on Kamila Valieva controversy was galling

The 68-year-old German was a driving force in making sure Russia never missed a Games after running the largest moder...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | From Olympic golden child to derided drug-cheat, Kamila Valieva falls once more at free...

She shone brilliantly for a moment and then crumbled, derided as a drug-cheat. There will be more where this traumati...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | In return to ice, Kamila Valieva was mostly sublime. But she was not Valieva

Valieva may be on top after the short but she’s not looking like a champion at the moment. The doping-tainted teen lo...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | Russia’s Kamila Valieva will skate on, but the doping debacle remains a mess

Valieva is a child, competing in a world of adults. The adults let her down, writes Bruce Arthur.

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | Kamila Valieva just the latest in long line of teenage Russian figure skating sensations

Her coach Eteri Tutberidze is viewed dimly within the international skating orbit for her hard-nut approach to young ...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | Welcome to the Kamila Valieva legal funhouse (minus the fun)

Russian skater’s failed doping test has thrown the Olympic Games into legal and diplomatic chaos.

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | The many layers of the Kamila Valieva doping mystery at the Beijing Olympics

If Valieva really tested positive, the thicket of overlapping or discarded official responsibility won’t be the real ...

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