[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. Tutberidze has a history of skaters that have talked about her restrictive, even abusive coaching methods she lectured Valieva after her free skate. Without the points from the triple Axel, Liu was unable to crack the top five and finished seventh as the three Russian women, two Japanese women, and South Koreas Young You, who earned more points for her program components, surpassed her. ", Shortly after she finished her skate, she spoke even more bluntly. "Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. I consent that the Eurosport family of companies may provide me with news and marketing information about their products and services. [2][3] From the 202122 season, the International Skating Union renamed "ladies' singles" as "women's singles". For a time, it was unclear if Valieva would be allowed to compete in women's singles after she tested positive for a banned substance. AFP via Getty Images March 7, 2022. [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. Kaori Sakamoto finished well behind them with 233.13 points. Mihara Mai (JPN) 208.17. . By OlympicTalk. By Julia Elbaba Published February 19, 2022. Some expressed regret that no medal ceremony for the team event, and potentially the individual event, would be held; the individual event medal ceremony was eventually held as planned after Valieva placed outside the top three. [7] This schedule may be subject to change in due time. By submitting your email, you agree to our, The wild finish to the Olympic womens figure skating final, Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, and the Easter egg-ification of the Hollywood feud, The Supreme Court signals that a terrifying attack on voting rights will vanish for now, Brad Pitt was the only winner of the Aniston-Jolie tabloid battle. At the conclusion of the 2032 Games, NBCUniversal will have presented 23 total Olympic Games and 17 consecutive, the most for a U.S. media company in both categories.The dramatic skates and reactions from women's free skate | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sportshttps://www.youtube.com/nbcsports [7][8][9] The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on 14 February that she would not be provisionally suspended and would be allowed to compete in the individual event as planned, still subject to further and ongoing investigation. The International Olympic Committee previously said that a medal celebration would be "inappropriate" with Valieva on the podium, amid the circumstances, despite the other athletes' non-involvement in the scandal. The 16-year . 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. Final standings. The following National Olympic Committees earned spots to compete, with the number of athletes in parentheses. It allows viewers at home to tell whos in the lead and where the current skater stacks up; skaters in competition can make these same calculations. Russia's Kamila Valieva reacts after competing in the women's single skating free skating of the figure skating event during the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Feb. 17, 2022. . 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. Valieva won the short program, with Shcherbakova second, Sakamoto third, and Trusova fourth. It should serve as a lesson for doping authoritiesenforce anti-doping rules and ensure that violators are punished appropriately. That result left the anguished 15-year-old visibly distraught, breaking down in tears. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Anna Shcherbakova, the 2021 world champion, will be the Olympic gold medalist when the judges marks come in. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? 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. Russian 15 year old Valieva WINS GOLD in stunning Grand Prix debut | NBC Sports 868,356 views Nov 2, 2021 16K NBC Sports 2.1M subscribers Russian 15-year-old Kamila Valieva ran away with the win in her senior Grand Prix debut, scoring a 180.89 for her free skate, putting the world on notice and taking the competition by over 30 points NBC Sports. [12], On 15 February, after the 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. The women's individual figure skating event, which had been marred from the beginning by the . I hate it. [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. Olympic medalist and NBC commentator Tara Lipinski noted during the broadcast of the free skate that Trusova is well-known for her fierce competitive streak, having once said: "Winning is first place, anything else is losing.". All three medalists from the 2018 Olympics either retired from competition (Evgenia Medvedeva, Kaetlyn Osmond) or had taken a prolonged break from the sport without an official retirement announcement (Alina Zagitova). "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. While Trusova scoring a massive 106.16 in the technical aspect of the free skate wasn't enough to beat out Shcherbakova, it played a big role in getting her on the podium. Nathan Chen spectacularly won gold in men's singles, and Team USA won silver in the team event, although that could conceivably be bumped up to gold at some point depending on what decisions are handed down regarding Valieva. I always try to reach a goal, I always add more quads," Trusova told reporters, according to Reuters. I will never skate again. According to the Associated Press (h/t ESPN),Russian newspaper RBC reported that the 15-year-old skater tested positive fora banned heart medication prior to the European Championships in January. "[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. "I don't have the big jumps as others would have, which is a big handicap," she told reporters after, the Associated Press reports. Shes been struggling with the jump throughout the season and fell on one attempt during the warm-up before landing one later. 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Anna Shcherbakova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the event, and her teammate, Alexandra Trusova, the silver medal. 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. It undercuts achievement from people who have a different style on the ice, Edmunds said. [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. 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. She probably saw the jumps that Trusova threw and knew her score. CPAC used to be a barometer. The 25-year-old, and oldest U.S. women's figure skater since 1928, put together a clean free skate the judges ruled a 136.2 to . Subscribe to our channel for the latest sporting news and highlights!NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and promoting NBCUniversal's Olympic coverage. Even though no American woman medaled in women's singles for the fourth consecutive Games, it was still a successful Olympics for USA figure skating. You can now buy a fraction of a house. 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With Valieva failing to medal, there will indeed by a medal ceremony for women's singles, and it will include two of Valieva's teammates. King, who openly criticized Russian competitors who tested positive for banned substances, says unlike other issues we are currently dealing with in the world of sports, this one is very black and white. The free skating was held on 17 February. Valieva was allowed to skate at the event because of an arbitration decision, but the International Olympic Committee said that because she was under investigation for doping, she would only be awarded a medal after the case closes and if she were ostensibly found not guilty. Over the past 16 days of the Winter . KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images. 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". Russian skater Kamila . Trusova also dissolved in tears, saying over and over I cant watch this, but her tears, she explained later, had more to do with her standings. 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. You are a Russian perform and defeat everybody!"[31][32][33]. In 2018, Canada took gold, followed by Olympic Athletes from Russia and USA once again in third.