Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova won the individual tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. This is reported by the correspondent of “Lenta.ru”.
For two rentals, the athlete received 255.95 points. In second place is Russian Alexandra Trusova, who scored 251.73 points. Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto finished third. Russian Kamila Valieva was fourth with 224.09 points.
The last speaker, Valieva, fell twice and made several mistakes, scoring 141.93 points. At the same time, she was in the lead after the short program. Shcherbakova was in second place, and Sakamoto was in third.
On February 14, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed the appeals of the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee because of Valieva’s positive doping test. As a result, she was admitted to further participation in the 2022 Olympics. The banned drug trimetazidine was found in her December sample.
Source: Lenta
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