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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was nice how happy the Japanese skater was with her bronze medal - a needed change of pace from the Russian meltdown(s).[/quote]

At points she was also sobbing and I don't think they were entirely tears of joy. I'm sure she was thrilled to medal but it's not like she is immune to the what is going on around her. Plus Sakamoto knows that if Valiyeva had skated as everyone knows she is capable, Sakamoto would have finished off the podium. It probably creates conflicted feelings because while Valiyeva should never have been allowed to skate, she did and there's a reason she was favored to win.

It's just an awful situation all around and the thing I kept thinking about is how these girls and women all sacrifice a lot of their childhood to this sport, and to have it represented this way at the Olympics must feel like a loss even if you were nowhere near the podium. Watching it reminded me of when I was a child, watching figure skating and it making me want to learn to skate and to learn to jump and dance the way they did. But if I were a young person watching this, I'd want nothing at all to do with it. What would be the point?[/quote]

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