“A teenager was turned into a leper”

Russia: Championship: “Valieva withstood the pressure and performed brilliantly at the Olympics.”

Sports Express: “Our athletes have proven once again that they are real professionals.” USA: Washington Post: “Even if Kamila Valieva wins, she will be defined by what she lost. The girl was gone, almost completely gone, 15 years old and without the youthful spirit. Perhaps most of the child in Kamila Valieva had disappeared earlier, but the isolation of precocious talent is different from shame. On the saddest night of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with all scrutinizing eyes on her, a teenager was turned into a leper. Almost everything about that evening was wrong and disturbing.”

Kamila Valieva won the short program. © APA/afp / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT

Italy: Sports Gazette: “Tears of ice. The most difficult night for Kamila Valieva. It guides, but does not enchant. She cried. And it couldn't have happened any other way. An understandable emotional outburst.”

Greenhouse Courier: “Kamila reserves the second gold for herself, but it will be a legal battle.” Great Britain: The Guardian: “A stumble at the start, tears at the end. In between, perfection. And somehow, after an extraordinary week of turmoil and torment, Kamila Valieva did what she has been trained to do since she began figure skating at the age of three: deliver when it counts.”

Fighting back tears: Kamila Valieva © ANSA / HOW HWEE YOUNG

independent: “Kamila Valieva fights back tears after running under the relentless spotlights of the Olympics.” France: The team: “The young girl shed a few tears, accepting the score without emotion, mediocre by her standards (82,16), but in the end enough to take the lead after the short program. What she didn’t know when she walked through the mixed zone without saying a word.”

Le Figaro: “Valieva bends in the storm, but she doesn't collapse. The young Russian figure skater finished the short program as the leader despite a shaky performance. It preserves the essentials.”

Switzerland: The New Zurich Times: “Behind the talent of the century is an environment to which success is worth everything and the protection of the runners is worth nothing.”

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“A teenager was turned into a leper”

International media wrote the following about figure skater Kamila Valieva's appearance in the short program at the Olympic Games in Beijing following the doping allegations against the 15-year-old:

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