Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a doping test at the Russian national championships last December but the result was revealed at the Winter Olympics.
For anybody surprised about those ‘marquis tent’ moments, as an ABC journalist crudely termed them, the Olympics is as much about torment as it is about achievement. The torment is very much reserved for the athlete, the achievement reserved for officialdom and media and spectator consumption. By Binoy Kampmark