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Figure skater Valieva disqualified in Olympic doping case. Russians set to lose team gold to US (apnews.com)

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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.

The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event. The United States finished second and is set to be named Olympic champion instead.

The International Olympic Committee decided not to present any medals for the event in Beijing, where the 15-year-old Valieva was the star performer hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.

CAS said it upheld appeals led by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which asked the court to disqualify Valieva from the Olympics and ban her. A Russian sports tribunal had cleared her of any blame.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It seems like every young person uses "racism" as synonymous for "discrimination against any group for any reason."

I've given up arguing. Religious fighting = racism. Nations fighting = racism. Musical preferences = definitely racism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes because we are lacking the words with proper impact. But it's the same kind of hatred based on otherness. The same fascist mechanism based on an mythological identity and believe in inequality. All Russians are and should be banned. We are the good ones. The way the left / progressive / liberals latched on to the warmongering over the war in Ukraine was shocking, instead of discussing (amoral) geopolitical motivations for this conflict and seeking diplomatic compromises it was just described as some good vs evil bullshit. And the fucking "leftist racists" are eating it up. Right here on lemmy. Ban Russia forever lol. I don't care if Russian is technically not an ethnicity, Slavic people are.

But I've given up arguing as well and just made a little shitpost.