JTFMax!

Honored, ostracized, and eventually broken: Kamila Valieva's last routine at Beijing 2022 was less figure skating freestyle than running the gauntlet. And the 15-year-old child, crushed under the weight of a harsh sports system, tremendous media pressure and public hostility, lastly crumpled on the ice.

The only thing more terrible than her presentation, nevertheless, were the responses and conducts of the grownups around her. Again, hectic ascribing blame and declining to take responsibility. Disregard, fairness, relationship, enjoyable-- for the umpteenth time, it's clear that the spiritual worth's of the Olympic Games are nothing more than a PR gag.

The outrageous hypocrisy of IOC president Thomas Bach is nothing brand-new. But, exposed in the politicking around the vanished Chinese tennis gamer Peng Shuai, it has come forward once again when it comes to Valieva.

Bach states he was "frightened" by the icy stare of Russian coach Eteri Tutberidze who, instead of taking the troubled child in her arms after her unlucky routine, snapped at her instead. That's the same Bach who has been offering the standard concepts of sport and the suitability of the Olympic Games to the greatest bidder for many years. He who unashamedly puts cash and power above the health and well-being of professional athletes.

The one who chooses to be comfortable as autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping instead of leading the fight versus doping or guarantee that Olympians get their reasonable share of the Games' enormous revenues. Which's before we get on to human rights and freedom of speech. Yet now it's Bach, of all individuals, who is blaming and taking in the appreciation for introducing a long-overdue conversation on a minimum age limitation for professional athletes contending in the Olympic Games. Self-criticism, duty, or personal repercussions for what occurred under his management-- Bach is not likely to be troubled by such ideas.

Who will secure Kamila Valieva? Similarly responsible for this human disaster is a callous Russian sports system that positions success above all else-- at all expenses.

And an anti-doping system that fails to keep it in check. The 'WADA' should have never allowed the 15-year-old teen to start in the first place; all that chaos would not have happened. And lastly, those grownups responsible for the teen Valieva should have shielded the girl and taken her out of this entire situation. Instead, the young girl entrusted to them undoubtedly traumatized the 15-year-old  who had been openly embarrassed. And whose love and enthusiasm for her sport has most likely been shattered permanently, not to mention other young figure skaters whose own Olympic accomplishments have been overshadowed by the entire sorry affair. These Olympic Games will be considered shameful episodes about sport. Eventually, despite all this, we understand that absolutely nothing will alter.

Finally, the NBC Olympic skating event reporter, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir (Weird -what is with the attire) be a little kinder and compassionate.