With all eyes fixed on Russian Kamila Valieva and her uncertain future at the Beijing Games, figure skaters - including the 15-year-old prodigy herself - sought to block out the noise as they showed up to practise at the Olympics training rink on Saturday.
For the third day in a row, Valieva braved media scrutiny including rows of cameras to take to the ice, practising her jumps and running through her short programme, set to Kirill Richter's In Memoriam.for a banned heart drug but it then took more than six weeks for the result to be made public.
American Mariah Bell, who will skate in the singles event that starts on Tuesday and which Valieva is favoured to win if she competes, said it was a shame that the incident had taken centre stage. "We're really focused on our own skating and putting on a good performance and hopefully everyone else will too," she said.
German pairs skater Nolan Seegert shared that view, saying there was a reason the Russian athletes had been stripped of their national flag in the past several Olympics.
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