Russian Determine Skater Kamila Valieva’s New Routine Is A Dramatic Commentary On Her Olympic Doping Scandal!!

Kamila Valieva is again — and she or he seems to be making a really sturdy assertion about what she went by means of on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

After all, the 16-year-old determine skater was on the middle of a stunning doping scandal throughout that Olympic occasion months in the past after she failed a drug take a look at late final 12 months on the Russian Nationals. The controversy blew up on the time, with allegations of dishonest and doping coming from aghast Olympic commentators and viewers.

Perezcious readers will recall how the then 15-year-old was finally allowed to skate her quick program within the ladies’s singles occasion in mid-February. Nonetheless, she stumbled 4 completely different instances throughout that skate, and misplaced out on a medal within the course of. The tense arc ended after she was extraordinarily emotional leaving the ice. However now, she’s again.

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On Sunday, she carried out a take a look at skate in Moscow, Russia as a part of her function on the nationwide determine skating group. Her free program for the occasion was set to Truman Sleeps, Philip Glass‘ musical rating from the 1998 film The Truman Present, starring Jim Carrey. Glass’ music wasn’t the one audio monitor on for her skate, although. Valieva’s four-minute-long routine additionally performed out whereas information commentary from journalists performed over the loudspeaker. The audio seems to reference again to the teenager’s months-old  scandal as a form of meta-commentary on what she went by means of. At one level, you may hear a feminine American newscaster’s voice as she says, “…it was surprising, it was stunning.”

Valieva then carried out her free skate routine. The group showered her with flowers and stuffed animals following the occasion, and she or he got here off the ice to hugs and assist from these ready within the wings. It seems she was very emotional throughout and after this skate, as effectively.

You’ll be able to see video of this new routine, and listen to the spliced audio commentary from her failed drug take a look at protection on the Olympics, on the hyperlink HERE. Down within the feedback, followers showered their love on the determine skater — and referenced her current tribulations as being inspiration for this new program, the music chosen, and the audio commentary laid excessive.

Listed here are just some of the reactions on-line to the athlete’s new routine:

“What can I say, only a murals. Camila [sic], you’re a hero of Russia.”

“That is her story. She watches with tears in her eyes”

“She appears to be telling the story of all this expertise. Sensible as all the time”

“Higher to not describe every thing that this little lady went by means of on the Olympics. God bless ALL TEAM of well being and persistence to struggle! You’re greatest!!!”

“that is an echo of the occasions of the final season, her confusion, emotion, tears … Personally, I felt her program this manner”

Wow.

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