Leeneia, your opinion on those jumps
homes in on the very thing that the skating choreographers and coaches
rely on to push their athletes ahead of the competition.

If you look at the reports on this latest Winter Olympics
and the women's figure skating competition,
it is precisely those things the skater does up in the air,
before dropping back down to the ice,
that were intended to make Olympics history --
by some accounts, history WAS made this year,
as in "first women's figure skater to execute quadruple- or quintuple- somethings."

I am entirely out of my depth with all the technical names
for these moves and manoeuvers that the figure skaters execute,
and many reports are full of these terms.

Finally, that positive result from the drug test.
What a fuss was made of this.
It seems to be only the tip of the iceberg, though.
Russia is notorious, for years, for "doping" of skating athletes,
I can't speak for other sport (swimming, perhaps?).
The thing that really transfixes me, though, is that
a rigidly regimented and controlled career of
a fifteen-year-old girl -- exactly who gave her the three drugs?? --
casts an unfavorable light upon the school and the coach behind her.