Ex-Olympic figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir — who are doubling as figure skating commentators for NBC Sports at the Beijing Winter Olympics — offered up some curt analyses of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's short program performance on Tuesday.
The pair had slammed the decision to let the 15-year-old — who tested positive for a banned drug in December — compete in the singles figure skating event, saying it was a "slap in the face" to let her perform.
Lipinski and Weir did not hold back after Valieva finished her return to competition — which rocketed her into first place.
"I don't know how many times over the past year that I've said she is the best figure skater I've ever seen," Lipinski said after Valieva's skate. "And just saying that now not only makes me confused, it makes me angry … and disoriented by everything I thought that I knew."
Weir offered a short analysis: "All I feel I can say is that was the short program of Kamila Valieva at the Olympics."
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