Russia has urged teen figure skater Kamila Valieva — who is at the center of a doping scandal at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to go "beat everyone."
"Hold your head up, you're a Russian," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in reference to 15-year-old Valieva.
Peskov added, "Go proudly and beat everyone" as the Kremlin described Valieva's case as a "misunderstanding."
Valieva made Olympic history on Monday when she became the first woman to land a quad jump.
The feat helped the Russian team win Olympic gold, but the result was immediately thrown in down as officials announced a "legal issue" would delay the medal ceremony.
On Friday, the International Testing Agency confirmed the teen had tested positive for the banned heart drug Trimetazidine in a urine sample collected by Russian authorities in late December.
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