The teenage Russian phenom glided across the ice and thrust herself into figure skating history. Leaping and spinning at high speed Monday night, Kamila Valieva became the first female figure skater to complete a quad — a jump with four rotations — at the Olympics.
But if the systems in place to root out doping in global sports had worked correctly, she would not have been on the ice at all.
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