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The Guardian says Kamila Valieva’s legal team has claimed that her positive drugs test may have come from a contaminated glass of water that contained traces of her grandfather’s heart medication.

France24 says Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance, Games testers confirmed Friday – the IOC is appealing.

The Guardian says Great Britain missed out on their first medal of Beijing 2022 after Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat suffered a crushing defeat to the Swedish team in their mixed curling bronze medal match.

The Guardian says Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said he will not attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Aljazeera says Australia will not send officials to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, joining a US diplomatic boycott of the event and risking a further souring of relations with China.

Aljazeera says The United States has announced it will stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s “egregious” rights abuses.

The Independent says the White House will join a global chorus of calls for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

The Guardian says a damning investigation into boxing at the Rio 2016 Olympics has found widespread evidence of “corruption, bribery and the manipulation of sporting results”

Larry Nassar became the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. But how did he get away with it for so long?

France24 says Olympic gymnast Simone Biles held back tears on Wednesday as she spoke at the Larry Nassar trial in the United States.