Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, February 18th. I'm Nyla Boodon. Here's

what we're watching today. Smart headlights come to American cars. Plus, how the pandemic

is giving us economic lessons in real time. But first, today's one big thing. The Olympic

doping scandal and where figure skating goes from here.

On Fridays, we like to wrap up the week's biggest political news. But today, we wanted

to turn to the Olympics. They're coming to close this weekend. And all week, there's

been a controversy unfolding around Russian skater, Kamila Veliyeva. The 15-year-old was

still allowed to compete despite testing positive for a banned substance before the games.

He was a heavy favorite to win a gold medal, but ended up coming in fourth place yesterday.

Veliyeva's brought up a lot of questions about the integrity of the Olympic games. Joining

us to dig into this is the Washington Post Figure Skating Analyst, Robert Samuels. Hi,

Robert. Hey, how's it going, Nyla? Robert, first of all, how big of a deal is this for

figure skating and for the overall Olympics? I'm not sure. I've seen anything that has

marred a competition more than what we've seen this week. And that casts a poll on everybody

who wonders whether or not they're in the place they are because the competition was not fair.

Now, we don't know who the best person truly is because everyone was consumed by something

that was happening off the ice and not on the ice. Of course, the Russian Olympic team was already

competing under the Russian Olympic Committee because the country of Russia is facing a two-year

ban from a previous doping scandal. Is there any conversation about whether Russia would be banned

from the Olympics in the future because of this? I mean, that's a conversation everybody's

having, but also remember that Russians are really good at the Olympics. They put money into it.

They support these programs and there's a block of countries who want them there. So what happens

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