The first question at the Olympics daily news conference Saturday came from a German reporter, and anyone could have guessed what he would ask.
"On the Kamila Valieva case,” the reporter began, referring to the teenage figure skater in the middle of the latest Russian doping scandal, "can you explain why it took six weeks for the positive test result to come to light?”
The second question went to a reporter from Xinhua, the official news agency of China, and the discourse went, well, somewhere else.