SOCHI, Russia: Russian teenager Kamila Valieva shored up her status as favourite for women’s figure skating gold at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics with a record-breaking short programme on Friday.
The 15-year-old, competing at the Russian Grand Prix, earned a score of 87.42 points for her opening routine on the Sochi ice - shattering the previous mark (85.45) by almost two points.
The 2020 world junior champion now holds a full hand of records, adding this to her best ever scores in the free programme (180.89) and total (265.08) at Skate Canada in October.
The Eteri Tutberidze-disciple leads fellow Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (80.10) by a gaping seven points going into Saturday’s free routine at the venue of the 2014 Winter Games.
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