• Valieva finishes fourth after error-strewn free skate routine
  • ROC’s Shcherbakova and Aleksandra Trusova claim 1-2

The haunting strains of Ravel’s Bolero rang out across Capital Indoor Stadium, but for once Kamila Valieva was unable to weave her spell.

The 15-year-old Russian is widely recognised as the greatest figure skater in history, but with Olympic glory on the line, the trials and tumult of the past week caught up with her over the longest four minutes and 20 seconds of her life.

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