Adults responsible for Valieva scandal should be banned for life

BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The drug scandal engulfing 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is inhumane and the adults responsible should be banned forever, skating legend Katarina Witt said.

"What they knowingly did to her, if true, cannot be surpassed in inhumanity and makes my athlete's heart cry infinitely," said Witt, an Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988.

Valieva on Monday won Olympic gold with her Russian team mates, but it was revealed on Friday that she had earlier failed a drug test.

The 15-year-old's gold medal and Games future now hangs in the balance as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) attempts to draw a line in the sand over Russian doping.

Valieva delivered one of the highlights of the Beijing Games so far when she landed the first quadruple jumps by a woman in Olympic competition.

But her dream debut turned to a nightmare when the International Testing Agency said she had tested positive for a banned angina drug in a urine sample collected by Russian authorities at the national championships in St Petersburg on Dec. 25.

"The same culture that promotes this kind of behavior is the same culture that ultimately spawns mass atrocities. I don’t think that’s hyperbolic."

Yes, it is indeed hyperbolic. Witt was referring to a specific act, not the system. Communism is egocentric since is a proxy servant of the devil, however the protest by the German skating icon Witt was against government system in which Valieva had a her "young and promising career" that Witt says was detoured, but a protest against the International Testing Agency for her not being able to medal for her country and continue in that career. Witt said Valieva should not be "held responsible for the teenager's failed test" since "you always follow the advice of your confidants," which thus represented a "dramatic turning point for her young and promising career system." While she implicitly faulted her trainers, yet there is not protest against what you described, and instead her "young and promising career" would be by continuing in that system.

And neither the loss of a medal and having a young and promising career detoured as well as Russia’s system overall that pushes such is certainly not something that "cannot be surpassed in inhumanity" which would include the crucifixion of Christ as well as the extreme long-term torture and privations of Christian and noble men and women.

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