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There has been some mixed reactions but one thing to take into consideration is Valera's age, she is 16. Athletes under 16 can't be held responsible for what people around them do.
Other skaters weigh in on the contraversial decision.
The extraordinary decision has frustrated and angered many in the sport who say honest athletes are suffering unjustly because of Valieva’s presence in the competition after she failed a drug test, Russia’s history of flouting the rules and a significant failure by the system meant to weed out drug cheats.
“It’s all just so unfair,” said Adam Rippon, a former Olympic skater who is coaching the U.S. figure skater Mariah Bell at the Games. “And now it’s also so unfair to all of these ladies because their whole Olympic experience is now wrapped up in the controversy because a country doesn’t want to play by the damn rules.”
I think because she is under 16, this is the right decision, let her skate but do not allow her to collect any medals. They are saying it was her grandfather's medicine but there are so many holes and mysteries in this story. We don't knwo if she took it, if someone in her family gave it to her or if her dirty Russian docors did.
The World Anti-Doping Agency and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee reacted angrily to the arbitrators’ decision, expressing disappointment and questioning both the panel’s logic and its commitment to fairness. Sarah Hirshland, the chief executive of the U.S. committee, said clean Olympians were being denied “the right to know they are competing on a level playing field.”
“We are disappointed by the messages this sends,” she said of the ruling to allow Valieva to compete, adding, “This appears to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by Russia.”
This should not have happened part of it is jot her fsult, it is the problem around her but it is back 82.16 1st place eye
There has been some mixed reactions but one thing to take into consideration is Valera's age, she is 16. Athletes under 16 can't be held responsible for what people around them do.
Other skaters weigh in on the contraversial decision.
The extraordinary decision has frustrated and angered many in the sport who say honest athletes are suffering unjustly because of Valieva’s presence in the competition after she failed a drug test, Russia’s history of flouting the rules and a significant failure by the system meant to weed out drug cheats.
“It’s all just so unfair,” said Adam Rippon, a former Olympic skater who is coaching the U.S. figure skater Mariah Bell at the Games. “And now it’s also so unfair to all of these ladies because their whole Olympic experience is now wrapped up in the controversy because a country doesn’t want to play by the damn rules.”
I think because she is under 16, this is the right decision, let her skate but do not allow her to collect any medals. They are saying it was her grandfather's medicine but there are so many holes and mysteries in this story. We don't knwo if she took it, if someone in her family gave it to her or if her dirty Russian docors did.
The World Anti-Doping Agency and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee reacted angrily to the arbitrators’ decision, expressing disappointment and questioning both the panel’s logic and its commitment to fairness. Sarah Hirshland, the chief executive of the U.S. committee, said clean Olympians were being denied “the right to know they are competing on a level playing field.”
“We are disappointed by the messages this sends,” she said of the ruling to allow Valieva to compete, adding, “This appears to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by Russia.”
This should not have happened part of it is jot her fsult, it is the problem around her but it is back 82.16 1st place eye
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