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BEIJING : Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's pristine performance in her Olympic debut at the Beijing Games on Sunday drew pure awe from rivals and team mates who praised her prodigious athletic talent and maturity as the gold medal favourite.
Russian teenager Kamila Valieva may or may not have any idea about Britain’s association with figure skating and Bolero — but it may help make her a star to UK audiences at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. At the age of just 15, she is the favourite to win gold having stunned recently at the figure skating European Championships, when she took the free skate title by an astonishing 22 points. Ad/> Valieva did that to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, which was famously what Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skated to on their way to ice dancing gold at the Sarajevo Games in 1984 — but this teenager is taking that music to a whole different level.
BEIJING : Stripped of their flag and anthem because of doping sanctions, Russian athletes are set to dominate the podium at the Beijing Olympics in figure skating and cross-country skiing, disciplines that could see them finish near the top of the medal table.
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MOSCOW : European champion Kamila Valieva will lead a Russian figure skating team at the Beijing Olympics next month that is dominated by a bunch of talented teenagers who will be eager to obliterate the opposition.