Call it a tale of two Olgas: Reports on the current Pyleva scandal have been, if not invariably, at least frequently referencing the Russian doping scandal of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. At that time, Russian skier Olga Danilova ran into similar troubles (as did a few other athletes, Russian and otherwise).
Speaking of 2002: following from the figure-skating controversy at the 2002 Games there came an opinion piece from Steve Wilstein bearing the headline, “If figure skating isn’t fair, get rid of it.”
On behalf of the whole of the staff of The Aural Times, I would like to take this opportunity to assert that figure skating is not fair. Now will someone please take Mr. Wilstein up on that? Because we would, frankly, prefer to watch the Curling qualifiers than to ever have to hear Scott Hamilton fawn over another triple lutz.
