ice after the sport s highest court cleared her, after sport s highest court cleared her to compete. we re hearing from more and more voices, prominent olympians, sounding off against this decision, including canadian gold medalist megan dehamill who tweeted, how is anyone going to take the women s event seriously now? we were just told illegal drugs and abuse are okay. if that s what the sport is about now, i want nothing to do with it. february 14th, 2022, the day the olympic spirit died. thank you for being with us. the day the olympic spirit died. what do you mean? i think we have seen and we heard about these doping scandals in sport before. but to my knowledge it is very rare that we hear about a positive doping case, come out during the olympics and we still allow this athlete to compete. i think that this is unfair to every one of the women competing against kamila today in the
olympic games. i understand she is indeed. she s very upset that russian skater camila valiasr was doped for the competition the other night. watch. there s a cloud over the entiren olympics now, not justot figure skating. so you know, it s something that especially this is not i think the spirit ofhi the olympics. this is where the olympics spirit is lacking.ta the olympic spirit vanish when the olympic committee agreed to let china host the games. this is the most murderous regime. the liberty. it imprisons its own people and yamaguchi is worried aboutak a russian skater taking dope before her skate. the russians dope all the time. yeah,au i mean the russians have been cheating sincen they doped up the east germans. you know, doing that . w that wasas a hell of a butterfly
just a few minutesal. he s 22 years old, lived a couple miles away, he has shopped there before without incident. more trouble for j.c. penney. it s announced plans to cut 33 stores and cut about 2,000 jobs. it says it would save about $65 million this year. those stores are expected to be closed by may. it s an amazing story of the olympic spirit. even before the games begin, tracy barnes gave up her spot on the team for her identical twin sister lanny, who got sick and couldn t compete at the tracy earn that spot, but decided her city should go to sochi. she became emotional when we talked to lanny by phone from italy. it was one of those moments that i think changed my life ford. you know, i don t know how or where you begin to thank someone
and blackberries. and what are they thinking? ultra marathon, 135 miles long in death valley. it is being called the world s toughest footrace. runners starting right now on a two-day run through hell. the average temperature in death valley, 116 degrees. not a crash but tacks, of all things, slowing down the tour de france. someone threw tacks on the road in front of the cyclists. who does had a? newsroom begins right now. good monday morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for being here with us this morning. the battle over bain, taxes, outsourcing and whether president obama should apologize gets hot they are morning. the president will be in cincinnati later today and expected to bash romney over tax breaks for big business. but romney is already on the offensive. appearing on republican friendly fox & friends this morning. the president has only one thing going. that is constant attacks on me. you know, they are dishonest and misdirected. i think t