SOCHI, RUSSIA—The latest conspiracy theory: Pee-you.

Yes, a urine squad has been playing catch-a-piddle with Canada’s figure skaters.

Seven of them have been fingered for random drug testing over the past week. Eight, if pairs skater Kirsten Moore-Towers had been in her room at the athletes’ village when the pee-pee police came calling Saturday.

Singles skater Kaetlyn Osmondwas in situ ’round about 11 a.m., sleeping after her early morning practice session, when there was a tap-tap.

“In the middle of taking a nap, I just hear someone knocking on my door. Oh, let’s go to testing. I was like, oh great. I had the Do Not Disturb sign on so I thought, why is someone knocking on my door?

“I went out and they were really nice about it. They walked me to the station. It was probably a good thing because if not I would have probably just stayed in my bed all day.”

It’s highly unusual, however, for an athlete to be drug tested on the day of competition since they’re routinely subjected to the urine-a-lot-of-trouble anti-doping ritual after performing. And Osmond skated the women’s short program — her contribution to the new team event — Saturday night, finishing fifth among 10 entrants with a season-best score of 62.54, as Canada qualified second overall behind Russia for the winnowed-down five-team long program conclusion Sunday.

Osmond had never before been tested so close to a competition.

That, and the sheer number of Canadian skaters being tested, had Team Canada officials speculating over what the heck was going on. This is ultra-surveillance Russia after all. And the Sochi Olympics Organizing Committee — not WADA — is in charge of testing at the Games, which is normal procedure for the Olympics. The Russians are in charge of the on-site doping lab.

But seven skaters presented with a cup — including at least one member in every duo discipline — is not normal. Pairs skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford were tested at midnight the day they got in.

You start to wonder. High performance director Mike Slipchuk certainly did, taking his concern to the Canadian Olympic Committee, which is making enquiries.

“They’re definitely going to just try to see that doesn’t happen (again). Our skaters don’t complain about it. But I’ve never seen one on a day of competition. It’s just . . . interesting.

“At least we’re running out of skaters, which is a good thing.”

Meanwhile, some of the other skating squads haven’t been tapped for random testing yet at all.

At least Osmond was not subjected to random post-competition testing as well.

The 18-year-old from Newfoundland was otherwise over-the-moon after making her Olympic debut. She looked poised and self-assured throughout the clean Sweet Charity routine, opening with a strong — maybe slightly too strong — triple toe-triple toe combination into a triple flip.

“To have such a strong performance for my very first competition, first program here at the Olympics, it felt really great to be able to know I can do that.”

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She was the first of the women to skate and that was fine too, as Osmond basked in the Olympic sensation.

On the combo: “The jump felt a little big for me. I guess that’s the excitement. So when I landed I had to fix myself a little.”

Osmond felt so at ease with the situation she barely had need to seek any last-minute advice from coach Ravi Walia. “Normally we have something to say beforehand, but this time I was ready.”

With South Korea not contending in the team event, that meant defending Olympic champion Yuna Kim was not in the mix. And that opened up rich possibilities for host-country sweetie Julia Lipnitskaia. The expectant audience could hardly contain itself, roaring when the 15-year-old appeared. She leaned over at the beginning of her program to trace a heart on the ice. Then she skated lights-out, racking up a first-place score of 72.90.

Lipnitskaia’s idol, Carolina Kostner of Italy — 2012 world gold — was second and Japan’s Mao Asada third.

It hasn’t yet been announced whether Osmond will also skate the free for Canada on Sunday or if that job will fall to 16-year-old Gabrielle Daleman. Certainly Osmond would love to skate on; she’s an instant fan of the team event. “I absolutely love it. And to have people in the kiss ’n’ cry with you after, it’s special.”

That’s an oddball feature of the team competition — everybody from your nation’s squad crowds into what is usually the athlete’s solitary domain to await the marks. In Osmond’s case, she received a group-hug from her colleagues. “Actually, the bench almost tipped, so that would have been really funny.”

Kevin Reynolds is set to take over Sunday from Patrick Chan, who was third in the short program earlier. Dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are eager to continue on, from short to long.

At the end of the short program segment, Russia led the team event overall with 37 points, followed by Canada with 32 points and the U.S. in third with 27 points. Japan and Italy have also qualified for the final.

The pairs free was also skated late Saturday night, Canada represented this time by 2013 and ’14 national silver medallists Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch. They had one fall but were otherwise solid, posting a score of 129.74, coming in second to the Russian team of Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov. The home-pair brought the house down with their entertaining Addams Family routine, earning a score of 135.09.

Overall, at this point, Russia now has a six-point bulge on Canada, 47 points to 41, and the U.S. sitting third with 34.