A Disturbing Night of Olympic Figure Skating Exposes the Dark Side of the Rink

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A Disturbing Night of Olympic Figure Skating Exposes the Dark Side of the Rink
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IOC president Thomas Bach said he was “disturbed” by Thursday’s figure skating competition, which featured distraught teenagers vying for Olympic gold under the cloud of a doping scandal.

BEIJING—After a wrenching night at the Olympics that ended with Russian teenagers in tears and the sport in tatters, figure skating began to sift through the wreckage of what appeared to be a systemic failure of the people who were supposed to be the adults in the rink.

All of the sport’s darkest fears—about pushing ever-younger athletes through more grueling training to achieve ever-more dizzying achievements—exploded in one historic night of collective meltdown.

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