Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.

The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event. The United States finished second and is set to be named Olympic champion instead.

The International Olympic Committee decided not to present any medals for the event in Beijing, where the 15-year-old Valieva was the star performer hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.

CAS said it upheld appeals led by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which asked the court to disqualify Valieva from the Olympics and ban her. A Russian sports tribunal had cleared her of any blame.

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    9 months ago

    I wonder what we’re going to call it when actual aliens show up. Then xenophobia will literally mean fear of aliens, so what will we call fear of foreign nationals?

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      9 months ago

      And racism will literally mean fear of a different race (different to homo sapiens) and will also only apply to aliens. :D

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        9 months ago

        Homo sapiens is the species, not the race. So racism will still mean the same thing as it means now.

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          9 months ago

          English is not my first language but my understanding of the word “race” initially came from fantasy books and games, where “human” is a race, along with “orc” and “elf”. You are of course right about “species”. Though I now wonder what “race” was supposed to mean in this fantasy context, where it’s clearly used to differentiate different species, and yet it’s called “race”.

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            9 months ago

            I don’t know where that comes from, and it’s always bothered me that fantasy and sci fi conflate the two words.