Anna Shcherbakova, 17, of Russia, landed two quadruple jumps and received the highest artistic marks to win the Olympic women’s figure skating competition on Thursday. The heavy favorite — her teammate and training partner Kamila Valieva, 15 — stumbled from the beginning and fell on a quad toe jump to finish a disappointing fourth amid the maelstrom of a doping scandal.
In the most ambitious jumping competition in the history of women’s Olympic figure skating, no one performed more audaciously than another Russian teenager, Alexandra Trusova, who attempted five quads, landed three cleanly and finished second.