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Kamila Valieva was banned from the Olympics for four years after testing positive for a drug during the 2022 Beijing competition. Details on the figure skater.
Quad jump. what do you make of that? >> my decision not to do a quad jump was before the games began. a year ago i had a stress fracture in my left foot which came from training that quadruple jump, so i couldn't do anything on the left foot for about six months. before the olympics, i started training in the quad again on the left foot and it started to bother me again, and i had, you know, visions of last year and i didn't want my olympics to be the same experience that i had at the world championships where i was wondering if i would get through it, so the solution was to just take that one...
Win? >> i didn't think i was going to win, and it's never a healthy process, so it's difficult to block that out of your head, but i really just wanted to have my best performance at the olympics, and i've been such a fan of the games my whole life, it's such a special event, that i wanted to do the training and ensure that i could have that moment. >> larry: what do you make of all the negative response of the russian silver medal list, plushenko, your failure to do a quad jump. what do you make of that? >> my decision not to do a quad jump was before the games began. a year ago i had a stres...