“For Valieva, it became trauma and stress that she could let the team go to the Olympics” – Russian national team doctor Shvetsky

Figure skater Kamila Valieva took the news of a positive doping test at the Beijing Olympics with dignity, but it was hard for him to realize that the whole national team could suffer from it. On this subject “Literary Journal” said Russian national figure skating team doctor Philip Shvetsky.

Valieva, 15, won the 2022 Olympics gold medal as part of the Russian national team after the team figure skating tournament. The IOC has decided not to award the winners of the competition until the investigation related to the athlete’s December positive doping test has been completed. In the individual tournament, the skater became fourth, losing the lead after the short program.

– At first she did not even show that there was a reason for excitement. She reacted simply and with dignity, waiting for the situation to be resolved. But then it turned out that because of his doping test, the whole team was at risk. And she took this turn very emotionally – she burst into tears, for a long time she could not calm down.

This is an indicator that she is not just a well-behaved girl, but a person. For her, it became trauma, stress, that she let the team down, that her comrades would suffer, ”Shvetsky said.

Earlier, the doctor suggested that the banned substance trimetazidine could have entered the athlete’s body through someone close to him.