After Valieva: 5 questions for a doping expert about fixing a messy system
"That was an incredibly troubling outcome," doping expert April Henning says of Russian skating star Kamila Valieva's collapse. She says Valieva "was failed at all levels" by the adults around her.
The machinery of international sport generated an extraordinary and painful spectacle in women's figure skating at the Beijing Olympics, as young athletes tried to summon the performance of their lives without knowing all their rivals were clean. They did so with the knowledge that no medal ceremony would be held if the favorite, Kamila Valieva, reached the podium.
Then the Russian teenager's routine unraveled, and she collapsed into tears at the rink she once seemed destined to dominate.
"That was an incredibly troubling outcome," said doping expert April Henning, of the University of Stirling in Scotland. "A 15-year-old child under that
