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SO-CALLED “HISTORY” was made this weekend, but the REAL story is the ROTTEN CORE of a sport where Americans are FORCED to compete against CHEATS and WAIT YEARS for justice. U.S. figure skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates clinched a record seventh national title, but their path has been a NIGHTMARE paved by a GLOBAL doping scandal that STOLE their Olympic moment.
Performing a flamenco to the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” from the dystopian “Westworld,” their victory was a HAUNTING metaphor for a sports world where NOTHING is as it seems. These three-time world champions, now favorites for gold in Milan, had their 2022 Olympic victory literally SNATCHED by a 15-year-old Russian phenom, Kamila Valieva, who was later exposed as a DRUGGED competitor.
“The feeling from the audience… was unlike anything I’ve ever felt,” Chock said, a chilling statement from athletes who felt the ecstasy of victory only to have it POISONED by a two-year bureaucratic hellscape waiting for their rightful gold.
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Madison Chock and Evan Bates of United States perform during ISU World Figure Skating Championships – Boston, at TD Garden, on March 28, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jurij Kodrun – International Skating Union/International Skating Union via Getty Images)
This is the BITTER reality of modern Olympics: you can be the best in the world, but you must BEG for your medal while a doped child stands on your podium. Valieva tested positive for the banned heart drug trimetazidine, was suspended, and stripped—but the DAMAGE was done. Chock and Bates were forced to show “grace” to the very system that VICTIMIZED them. “We’re all human,” Chock stated with unsettling forgiveness. Is this the new price of victory—COMPLACENCY in the face of corruption?
Their “historic” seventh title is a hollow crown in a sport where integrity has been SABOTAGED by state-sponsored doping programs and a weak international bureaucracy that moves at a GLACIAL pace to right its wrongs. They finally got their gold at a ceremony in Paris last summer—a DELAYED, tarnished reward for excellence.
As they head to Italy as favorites, one terrifying question remains: in an arena where the rules are BROKEN and justice is an afterthought, can any victory ever truly be pure? The podium is now a crime scene, and every gold medal is potentially STOLEN property.
Author: Kayitsi.com
