Down-the-line.com / Figure Skating. The doctor of the Russian national figure skating team Philip Shvetsky has shared his opinion on the doping scandal of figure skater Kamila Valieva, which took place at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing (China). According to the expert, doping cannot help figure skaters.

“There can be no question of doping in the story with Valieva. She did not take any drugs that could artificially improve her sports performance.”

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In general, the concept of “doping” due to numerous speculations, scandals, inflated by the press, came into force and, apparently, lost its true meaning for the general public. In the minds of the public, the image of a bodybuilder immediately appears, which destroys his health by increasing muscle mass.

But figure skating is not bodybuilding. The use of the concept of “doping” in relation to figure skaters is incorrect, there is no doping for figure skaters. And even if it existed, under the current control system, its use is nonsense,” Shvetsky said. “Literary Journal”.