Kamila Valieva skating scandal takes surprising twist I didn’t see coming | Opinion

In the 30-plus years I’ve covered Olympic figure skating, I thought I had seen and heard it all, from Tonya-Nancy to the French judge, from Russian cheating to, well, Russian cheating, most recently the Kamila Valieva scandal at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.

But then this week the internet produced an unprecedented surprise: Valieva’s new long program for the 2022-23 season, which included me. Read More