Olympics Let Russian Figure Skater Kamila Valieva Compete Following Drug Test Fail -- And Sha’Carri Richardson Has THOUGHTS!
15.02.2022 - 19:00
/ perezhilton.com
American track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson is RIGHTFULLY calling out what appears to be a major double standard at this year’s Winter Olympics. And we’re here for her take!
As Perezcious readers will recall, Richardson is the wildly talented American track and field star who was banned from last year’s Tokyo Olympics after a test came back confirming she’d used marijuana prior to the event. Richardson was forthright with copping to the positive test at the time, explaining that she’d used the substance to help with the death of her beloved mother. However, despite it not even being a performance enhancing drug, she was still kicked out.
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Now, Richardson is back in the headlines after a 15-year-old Russian Olympic Committee figure skater, Kamila Valieva, has been allowed to compete at this year’s Olympics in Beijing despite testing positive for a banned substance in the midst of competition. It would seem to be a cut-and-dry case — an athlete fails a test for a banned substance during the Games! — but the Court of Arbitration for Sports saw it another way. They argued that Valieva’s age was reason to lift the ban and allow her to keep competing at the event in Beijing.
WTF?!
For those who don’t know, Kamila is a figure skating prodigy who’s been taking the world by storm the past few months.
It’s a genuine shame to learn that like so many Russian athletes before her (that’s why athletes compete for the Russian Olympic Committee and not Russia — the country itself is banned), she was using banned substances. Doubly so because she’s so young, and whoever convinced her to do this may have ruined her life.
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