The Russian Olympic Committee, Figure Skating, Camilla Valieva

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Russian figure skater camilla valieva failed to make the podium after falling several times during the free skate. She was openly berated by her coaches, instead of being given comfort. The testing agencies and all those who were involved allowed it to just sit for a month and a half then blow up at the olympics. And that's where the investigation has to go as well.

This year’s weird Winter Olympics were overshadowed by politics, Covid-19, and the threat of war. But as NPR’s Tom Goldman explains, the biggest scandals were still about the sports.

This episode was produced by Will Reid with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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