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‘We’ve Got to Fix It’: Team USA CEO Sarah Hirshland Questions Integrity of Olympics After Valieva Dispute

The USOPC executive says the decision to allow the 15-year-old skater to continue competing in Beijing is a threat to the entire system.

Sports Illustrated

Editorial: Sha’Carri Richardson, we feel you

Our hometown track star, Sha’Carri Richardson, is speaking an important truth loudly, and we don’t blame her.

Tribune News Service

BC-Olympic Digest, ADVISORY

Hello from Beijing!

The Independent UK

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Russia's Valieva Aims for Second Olympic Title under Doping Cloud

Teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will attempt to win a second Beijing Olympics title on Thursday in the next chapter of a doping scandal which has overshadowed the Games. The 15-year-old is in pole position after finishing top in Tuesday's first half of the women's singles competition, before the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

AP sources: US skaters to get Olympic torches as medals wait

IOC president Thomas Bach has offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their silver medals

The Independent UK

It's Time to Raise the Age Minimum in Figure Skating

Even if Kamila Valieva had never tested positive for a banned substance, the 15-year-old shouldn't have been able to qualify for the Olympics.

Sports Illustrated

Russian athlete's doping scandal debases spirit of fair play at Games

The spirit of fair play, the foundation of sports, has been neglected. Relevant organizations such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) need to get to the bottom of this issue as soon as possible and appropriately deal with it.

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Valieva to take to Olympic ice once more amid doping scandal

Kamila Valieva aims for the top step of a podium she may never see when the Russian figure skating star at the center of a doping scandal competes in the women’s free skate at the Beijing Olympics

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics day 13 – as it happened

Kamila Valieva slipped to fourth in figure skating and Team GB secured their first medal on a dramatic day in Beijing

The Guardian - US

Double standards in Olympics doping case

The track & field star and more ex-Olympians question integrity of letting Valieva compete while punishing others

Salon

Olympic viewers praise Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir for commentary on skater Kamila Valieva’s performance

‘The commentary and silence were perfect,’ one viewer wrote

The Independent UK

Ukrainian skier Valentyna Kaminska suspended from Winter Olympics after failing drug test

The Winter Olympics has been rocked by another failed drugs test, this time by a Ukrainian skier who tested positive for three banned substances

Daily Mirror

Kamila Valieva holds back tears after first skate since trimetazidine doping controversy at Winter Olympics

It was announced last week that the 15-year-old tested positive for a banned substance back in December

The Independent UK

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir perfectly sum up Kamila Valieva controversy with honest commentary

They nailed it.

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Evening Standard

Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva’s positive sample ‘also contained two legal heart drugs’

Kamila Valieva’s drug sample which tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine also contained two other drugs used to help heart conditions, according to reports.

The Independent UK

IOC hit back at Sha’Carri Richardson criticism of Kamila Valieva decision

The American sprinter took issue with the way Valieva’s case has been handled

Daily Mirror

IOC hits back at Sha'Carri Richardson racism claim over Kamila Valieva drugs reprieve

The IOC has issued a response to Sha'Carri Richardson's claim that the only difference between her case and Kamila Valieva's is that she is black.

Daily Mirror

Kamila Valieva 'had three different heart drugs in her system' when she failed doping test

Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance in December but the results didn't come to light until after she had already competed in the Winter Olympics, which got underway in Beijing earlier this month.

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The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva figure skating results will ‘have an asterisk against them’, say IOC

The 15-year-old took the lead in the individual event on Tuesday amid a storm of controversy

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva victory would be provisional before doping test cloud clears

The 15-year-old Russian has been allowed to continue to compete in Beijing despite testing positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine.

The Independent UK

Valieva case boosts drive to raise age limit at Olympics

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate at the Olympics in the short program partly because her age gives her extra rights as a “protected person” in a doping case

The Guardian - UK

IOC denies Richardson’s accusations of double standards over Valieva

The IOC has dismissed claims that a double standard was applied to US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson compared to Russian skater Kamila Valieva

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Valieva in 1st place after short program

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva finished first in the women's short program with a score of 82.16 points at the Beijing Games on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Valieva listed two legal oxygen boosters on Olympic forms

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva listed two legal substances used to improve heart function on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her drug case at the Olympics erupted, according to documents submitted in her case

The Guardian - AU

Winter Olympics day 12: Canada crash out of men’s ice hockey – as it happened

Another busy day saw upsets, tight finishes, American success and more fallout from the Kamila Valieva controversy

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