Kamila Valieva's Winter Olympics 2022 live: Controversial Russian skater returns to action - latest updates

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Other skaters to watch include Japan's Kaori Sakamoto, and Alysa Liu and Mariah Bell from the USA, the latter of whom is coached by Pyeongchang's bronze medalist Adam Rippon. 

British hopes go with 27-year-old Dundee native Natasha McKay, who is five-time British national champion, and will be the eighth figure skater on the ice this morning. 

With trepidation too, eyes will be focused on Zhu Yi, the Chinese skater who placed last after her free skate in the team event. Having fallen repeatedly in her short program, Zhu performed through a veil of tears, likely impacted by the relentless Weibo trolls who had pounced with the hashtag #ZhuYihasfallen shortly after her first appearance.

US-born Zhu renounced her citizenship to compete for China in 2018, and had been set up as an sort-of inverse Eileen Gu, labelled a 'disgrace' for seeming to take the place from a worthier Chinese skater. She will surely go to the ice seeking redemption. 

Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport's live coverage of the women's single figure skating short program competition. 

The last time Kamila Valieva took to the ice at the Capital Indoor Stadium, the 15-year-old broke records as the first woman to complete a quadruple jump - the salchow - in Olympic history, following it up moments later with an unbelievable second, a quadruple toe loop, catapulting the ROC mixed team to Olympic gold. 

But in the week since, the results of a failed drug test on 25 December, in which the skating prodigy was found to have tested positive for banned substance Trimetazidine, have thrown the sport, and the Games