with the eyes of the world on her, 15 year old kamila valieva cast a disconsolate figure on the ice as she prepared for an event she might not be able to compete in. and then shielded herself as she walked past the press alone following confirmation she tested positive for a banned drug. such cases are not helpful to the games, these cases need to be prosecuted properly and taken care of properly and due process needs to be gone through. otherwise i think the confidence of people will be even less. ordinarily, someone as young as valieva would not have been named in a doping case but the international testing agency explained there was a need for official information, given the heightened level of public interest in this matter and the immense speculation that s been swirling around beijing. this has now engulfed the games. but how did we get here? on christmas day, valieva was drugs tested during the russian figure skating championships in st petersburg. on monday here in beijing she
although there will be some amongst this number who won t have died from covid. on average this week, 195 deaths were announced every day. russia claims there has been a misunderstanding over the case of one of its olympic ice skaters who failed a drugs test. kamila valieva tested positive for a banned substance in december, but the result was only reported, after she d helped russia win the team figure skating event at the beijing winter games on monday. no medals will be awarded until an appeals process is completed. here s our senior sports news reporter, laura scott. with the eyes of the world on her, 15 year old kamila valieva cast a disconsolate figure on the ice as she prepared for an event she might not be able to compete in, and then shielded herself as she walked past the press alone following confirmation she tested positive for a banned drug. such cases are not helpful to the games. these cases need to be prosecuted properly, taken care of properly and due