15-year-old camilla valieva, the russian national champ, tested positive for a bad heart drug prior to the games thereaan. Russia never fully acknowledged that it has a doping problem. They still have not. To this day they've fought everything,. and now theyve found themselves at these games, back involved with a doping situation. At these games, athletes are competing as the russian olympic committee, officially known only as r o c. Andte times reports a document filed in her hearing reveals two other legal substances that can treat the heart found in her sample from christmas day.
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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