In the decades that have passed since the defrocking of Ben Johnson at Seoul in 1988, no other single episode has damaged the credibility and the image of the Olympic movement as much as the sad, awful saga of the fall of figure skating icon Kamila Valieva at these Winter Games.The are supposed to lift us up and inspire us with their tales of extraordinary athletes doing extraordinary things but the Valieva episode was the opposite of that. The women’s individual figure skating was the highest-profile event of these Olympics and it made its audience feel sick. It made us look at the Olympics and feel only disgust and grief for what they have come to stand for in 2022.
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