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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Mark Staniforth

Kamila Valieva saga casts shadow over curtain call for cheerless Winter Olympics

AP

The Olympic Flame was snuffed out over Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium on Sunday night, concluding a Winter Games which will always be remembered as the one in which an ethereal figure skater fell to earth.

Fifteen-year-old Kamila Valieva is already back in Russia, having arrived initially to light up the Chinese capital with an otherworldly short program, before her tragic and almost incomprehensible truth emerged.

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