On February 15, as the Beijing Winter Olympics entered its 11th day, the much-publicized 15-year-old Russian-Austrian figure skater Kamila Valieva advanced to Thursday's free skating event with a first-place lead in the women's single skating event of the day, and her teammate Defending World Champion Shcherbakova advanced to second place with a small gap. The U.S. team's most promising Alysa Liu finished 8th to advance. Last week, When Vallieva was revealed not to have passed a drug test last December, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced after considering a number of factors that it would allow her to continue competing, but would cancel the award ceremony for the project.
Eileen Gu, an 18-year-old freestyle skier who also played for China, won the silver medal in the women's steeplechase that day, and last week she challenged the most difficult moves in the big jump event and played well and won gold. In addition, on the same day, Su Yiming, a 17-year-old snowboarder of the Chinese team, won the gold in advance after completing only two jumps in the men's big jump event, becoming the youngest Olympic champion in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
