The Winter Olympic Virus, Day 14, Part One: The Dark Post-Mortem Begins

Most of this material is from Inside the Games:

• Images of Kamila Valieva bawling after her falls have a lot of people condemning those who put her in that position.
• One Russian figure-skating star has written a letter urging Valieva not to quit the sport.  I'm verklempt.  For what she has been put through, she has no place in sport -- and the only technical "fault" of her own is it's her body that's been drugged and pushed, etc.  That said, last night had to be a devastating result for her, as well as Mother Russia.  It's one thing to drug an athlete where the only criteria is speed and/or power.  In a sport, however, where one false move and there goes the gold medal when you hit the ground... 
• The American and Japanese skaters from the team competition will receive Olympic torches from the IOC, as we await the CAS to fully weave it's way through this mess.
• It appears as if the Olympic silver medalist, Alexandra Truskova, has RETIRED ON THE SPOT because of the whole debacle:

What was also possible to hear in the broadcast:

Trusova: “I will never go on the ice again in my life! I hate this sport, I hate it! You can't do it this way! You can't do it this way! Everyone has a gold medal, but not me. You knew everything!"#figureskating #Beijing2022

— FS Gossips (@fs_gossips) February 17, 2022

• An opinion slamming all of us:  (Forgetting, of course, that the only way to prevent something like this is not having Russia in the movement at all -- Valieva is a minor and underage, but it's the RUSSIAN POWERS AROUND HER committing the abuse for gold and propaganda...)  

Child abuse under the guise of Olympic Sport An entire Olympic Movement and the IOC stood by and allowed a 15 year old child to be physically ,mentally and emotionally abused and publicly humiliated . Hatred and or Fear of Russia was more important that child welfare . No shame

— Brian Anthony Courtenay Lewis (@briaclew) February 17, 2022

• (And, for what it's worth, Mr. Lewis, blame the CAS more than the IOC -- if the CAS hadn't stepped in on the McLaren Report, Russia probably isn't even IN the Olympic movement, AND -- at minimum, Valieva never skates in the individual competition.)   
• The CAS has annihilated the anti-doping community in their full verdict allowing Valieva to complete, and completely ignores the all-but-certain means WHY the situation was so delayed in the first place.
• And WADA has condemned the CAS for what it calls "rewriting the code" regarding doping.  You mean legalizing it, under the right circumstances and parameters, do you not, WADA?
• IOC President Thomas Bach has condemned the Russian regime and Olympic Committee for placing such stress on Valieva that she finally cracked last night.  He also has little confidence it's going to get any better for her.
• And the Russian Deputy Prime Minister has condemned Bach for his comments.  No surprise, given the abject contempt the Russians have for the IOC and everything it stands for.
• Bach points out that the moment Valieva fell, the entire entourage (and probably her Russian dopers) gave her the fucking cold shoulder.  Oh gee, what a motherfucking shock.  It may take an appeal from the likes of that one ex-skater to keep her from Siberia.  At FIFTEEN!  And I'm NOT joking!!!   
• Bach had to deal with controversies and problems with the Beijing Games for at least a half a solid hour of today's (Friday Beijing time) press conference.