Russian skater Valieva fails to medal amid controversy. She falls twice during the figure skating of winter Olympics 2022. Its a biggest controversy of Olympics. Valieva the 15 year old Russian skater was allowed to stay and compete at the winter Olympics. Despite she failed drugs test last year.
Valieva finished fourth in the individual final, missing out on a medal due to a series of faults in her programme.
WHO IS KAMILA VALIEVA?
Kamila Valeryevna Valieva, a Russian figure skater, is 15 years old and was born on April 26, 2006. Valieva, who is competing in her first Olympic Games, is the Beijing Winter Olympics’ youngest athlete. In her debut performance on February 7, she broke three world records. There will be a short programme, a free skate, and an overall score. In addition, the Russian skater made Olympic history by being the first woman to do a quadruple jump.
KAMILA VALIEVA FALL:
Valieva landed her first quadruple leap but then faltered on the following triple, setting off a chain of blunders that left the audience gasping in horror.
The crowd cheered her on and celebrated the movements she did perform because the blunders and falls piled.
She cried her way off the ice for the second time this week, after weeping after the short programme as the anxiety of the previous days wore her down. Supporters waved Russian flags and shouted “well done” in Russian as she came off the ice.
Since her senior debut in October, the Russian has established a number of world records, including a 141.93 free skate score. Her free skate score of 141.93, on the other hand, was just the fifth best of the day.
The team event medals, in which Valieva played a key role in Russia’s victory, will not be awarded until the matter is settled.
The IOC’s decision to put an asterisk next to the women’s result until the doping problem was settled was the topic of discussion leading up to Thursday’s skate. Still, thoughts of that evaporated fast throughout a performance that was riddled with gaffes.