The Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating women's singles ended last night, in recent years in the project in the absolute dominance of Russia almost completely occupied the podium, but in addition to Serbakova won the gold medal instantly smiled, the overall atmosphere of the 3 female players who competed in the name of the Russian Olympic Games was quite gloomy, and it was the Japanese female player Hanori Sakamoto who won the bronze medal who always maintained a bright smile throughout the award.
The main reason for the strange scene may be Valieva, who eventually finished 4th. The beautiful girl who will turn 16 on April 24 temporarily came first after the end of the short song on the 15th, but she covered her face and cried after the game; last night's long song she made her finale debut, and even fell down 3 times, and failed to change feet twice.
In fact, judging by the overall action choreography, if Valieva wants to stand on the podium, even allowing two mistakes, it is enough to make the score higher than Sakamoto Hanori. After the performance, the Russian girl burst into tears again, and her brow remained deeply locked in Kiss & Cry (the area waiting for the scores to be announced after the figure skating match) until she left the field.
Vallieva failed to win the medal, but it was the key to the smooth award of figure skating women's singles. After the medals of the team competition were decided on the 7th, the award has not been awarded so far, because Vallieva, one of the main players of the Russian Olympic Games who won the gold medal, was detected to use Trimetazidine (Trimetazidine) in december last year, before the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is a substance that can increase blood flow, is usually used for angina treatment, and is generally believed to be used in sports competition to enhance performance, but Vallieva has not proven a history of heart disease. Therefore, the award of the team competition is infinitely delayed, and it is likely that it will not be held until the end of the Winter Olympics the day after tomorrow.
On the 8th, Vallieva was temporarily banned by the Russian anti-drug agency, but on the 9th, the ban was withdrawn after the Russian Olympic Games appeal (the US media believed that there was political pressure), the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Anti-Drug Agency filed a complaint with the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sports, International Court of Arbitration for Sport), and was rejected on the 14th, and the judgment pointed out that Vallieva under the age of 16 should be protected. It was not her fault that she only received the notice of the drug test last December during the Winter Olympics, and the temporary suspension would cause irreparable harm to her rights.
Cas ruled that in the current international geopolitical environment in which the United States is trying to re-encircle Russia and China, it is obviously not acceptable to mainstream Western values. Although figure skating is a sport in which the United States has long lost its competitive advantage, the European and American media have begun to criticize, and even by interviewing African athletes who were banned at the Tokyo Olympics last year, adding racial discrimination to the matter, the organizers of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the International Olympic Committee have become the protectors of the Russian drug ban problem, and Vallieva has also become the target of public criticism, although the CAS ruling specifically emphasizes that Vallieva should be protected, not her fault, but it is nothing.
Russia's various drug test fraud in hosting the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in its own home, and the widespread use of banned drugs in various sports competitions for many years, have prevented the country's athletes from competing in the name of the country, but can play in the Olympic Games in the name of the Russian Olympic Committee or independent athletes from Russia, etc., it is true that they have not been punished enough, but how much autonomy can a 15-year-old girl have in diet planning and nutrition choices compared to coaches?
What's more, it is the Western countries that blame her, and no country has completely no bad deeds on the issue of banning drugs. For example, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Canada's Jamaican sprinter Johnson was stripped of the men's 100m gold medal for testing steroids, ironically, the American celebrity Levis, who made up for the gold medal, was tested for drugs in the months before the Olympics, but was not banned.
After the award of the figure skating women's event, the two Russian women who won the medal deliberately avoided talking about their compatriots and little sisters, and even the tone and expression of the interview were like a heavy loss. The silver medalist Trusova expressed joy at completing five 4-week jumps, but her expression and low tone were very different from her narration. Serbakova said: "A few minutes after winning the gold medal, I was overwhelmed by happiness on the one hand, and on the other hand, I felt empty from the bottom of my heart for some reason. ”
Mainland spectators and volunteers for this Olympic Games gave warm applause to the figure skating women last night, and the lights at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium could not penetrate the haze on the field. Vallieva made a mistake, but should she bear the wrath of everyone alone? Should her obedience and trust in the coach be her crime? The answer will likely never be clear.