Kamila Valieva Russian figure skater finishes 4th at Winter Olympics following doping controversy

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00:00Camilla Valieva, with Amit. Honestly, it's heartbreaking.

00:05Oh, poor girl. Poor little girl.

00:08Something very wrong went wrong, didn't it?

00:11I mean, I just thought, well, she's so elegant and graceful.

00:15Look at the length of her legs. She's beautiful.

00:18She's beautifully dressed. She's a stunning dancer.

00:21I thought, you know what? At my age, I've always wanted to be an ice skater.

00:26I'm going to take it up.

00:27My mum took me as a child and I was rubbish, but I thought, no, it's not too late.

00:31Oh, yeah, Lizzie, it looks so easy.

00:33No, I wouldn't be tempted.

00:34Doing a quadruple.

00:35Just going in a straight line.

00:37But now I'm thinking, oh, my goodness, if it can happen.

00:41But, you know, I mean, there was one really horrible headline I saw in the Daily Mail there.

00:46I couldn't believe it because, I mean, none of these things have been decided.

00:49And at the end of the day, she's 15.

00:51They call her a dope cheat in the headline.

00:54And none of this has been decided.

00:56We do know that she was found to have taken a banned substance back in December.

01:01Well, she said she was contaminated by something her dad was taking.

01:04Her granddad's medicine or something.

01:06But we don't know.

01:07The point is that hasn't been looked into yet.

01:09Call her a drugs cheat.

01:11Yeah, because at 15, even if something was specifically taken that was dodgy, she's not made that decision, has she?

01:19She's had no control over it whatsoever.

01:21I mean, I don't know why anybody's surprised.

01:23Do you remember 2014, Sochi?

01:25I mean, the whole Russian team were banned because they found the most amazing drug-doping racket going on,

01:33where the scientists, the Russian scientists, were actually swapping samples with samples that weren't taken from the competitors.

01:40Well, that's why this year they haven't been able to compete under the Russian flag.

01:43Absolutely.

01:43They've had to be called the Russian Olympic Committee.

01:46Absolutely.

01:46But, I mean, at the end of the day, she's 15, she's a child.

01:49Exactly.

01:49Oh, she's going to be able to capitalise on this because she's got so much public affection and sympathy.

01:56But she looks right to me, Liz.

01:57And admiration for her skills.

02:01She can come back and she can do it.

02:04Depends what she's going to be treated like when she gets back home.

02:06When she's got more confidence.

02:06That's what I worry about.

02:07Yeah, I agree.

02:08When she gets back home.

02:09Yeah.

02:10I would imagine.

02:11She's a failure.

02:12They don't like failures.

02:13We're not talking about her.

02:14Okay.

02:14I would imagine she'll flee to America now, won't she?

02:16She could do.

02:17Because, generally speaking, athletes who excel in the Eastern Bloc, as it was, like Navratilova,

02:23they end up in America and should, hopefully, because her head's got to be cleared as well, hasn't it?

02:28Yeah.

02:28She was in a terrible state, the poor little girl, after, you know, she got banned.

02:32She needs to go into a new arena of support.

02:33Do you know, she's been dancing competitively.

02:35I was looking on YouTube.

02:36She's been dancing competitively since she was five.

02:38What does that do to your body?

02:40Unbelievable.

02:40I don't know.

02:41Well, apparently they suffer very, because she's one of the few dancers

02:44that can do a quad.

02:45That's right, yeah.

02:46You literally rotate four times in the air before you land again.

02:49When you land, I was reading up on this,

02:51when you land, you land with seven times your body weight.

02:54Golly.

02:54And they usually suffer from very bad backs.

02:57And your knees go or whatever, yeah.

02:58When you are a professional athlete from a very young age,

03:01and you have the body of a god,

03:05it does take its toll when you get to your 30s.

03:07I wonder what it's...

03:0830s?

03:10My knees really struggled at 30s, because I was...

03:12Can you remember that?

03:14I thought we're 30s.

03:15No.

03:16Can you do a quad?

03:17Quad?

03:18No.

03:20Can you imagine?

03:21Yeah, but I said body of an angel.

03:22I'd love to know what you think about the way Valieva's been trained,

03:26trained and treated, I think, in the last few days.

03:29Do you remember that?

03:30Sorry, very quickly.

03:31Do you remember that gymnast, Olga?

03:33Corbett.

03:34She was tiny and malnourished as well,

03:37and they put her through as well.

03:38But they used to give them drugs to stop puberty, didn't they?

03:41Oh, I mean, East German swimmers ended up looking like men,

03:44to be honest, because they filled them so full of...

03:46Testosterone.

03:48Testosterone, that's right, yeah.

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