Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze said she did not understand how her student Kamila Valieva was allowed to compete in the Olympics if her attempts were questionable.
Valieva at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing helped the Russian team win gold in the team competition. Before the personal tournament, it became known that the banned drug trimetazidine was found during the doping test of the figure skater at the Russian championship in December. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) admitted the Russian to the individual competitions of the Games, where she took fourth place.
– I would like to put all participants in the process under a lie detector – I want to know the truth! What is it, where does it come from? I will probably never get an answer to this question.
We know for sure that if athletes are admitted to the Olympics, they are all clean. And then when the coach chooses who will participate in the team tournament, he can take any athlete. It is being strategically kept secret who will do it…. It’s like that in any team. But anyway, all these athletes are clean.
How is it that an athlete with a “fixed” analysis makes it to the Olympic Games? After the Russian Championships, she took a test in Europe, and it was clear. At the Olympics, after the short program, it’s clean everywhere. Question: If they had this analysis pending, how did they allow her to qualify for the Olympics? They had to check, make sure it was ready. They should not have allowed the athlete to enter the Olympic village,” Tutberidze said on the air of the Comment Trainer project.
In January this year, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee (DAK RUSADA) ruled that although Valieva had committed an anti-doping rule violation, she bore “no fault or negligence.” The athlete avoided sanctions, except for the cancellation of his results on the date of sample collection – December 25, 2021. Subsequently, RUSADA, the International Skating Union (ISU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) filed appeals to CAS, which were consolidated into one proceeding.
The CAS hearings took place on September 26 and 28, after which it was announced that they would resume on November 9 and 10.
Source : MatchTV
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