The fate of a 15-year-old girl skating at the Winter Olympics for a country stripped of its name and competing without its flag because it ran a state-sponsored doping program is being decided in the most modern of Olympic ways.
Not on the ice, to the crescendo of classical music. Not on scorecards hovered over by stern-faced judges. Not while sitting in the "Kiss and Cry" station as prying cameras lurk.
What happens next to Kamila Valieva will unfold in back rooms, decided by adults who pretend to police a global gathering that long ago spun out of control like an iron worker botching a triple axel.
