“It is best to take food and water only from the hands of the trainer.” Tarasova – about Tutberidze’s words about the possibility of doping entering Valieva’s body

Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova told that the skater Kamila Valieva You should not have taken food from a volunteer before participating in the Beijing Olympics.

Earlier, Eteri Tutberidze, on the air of the Comment Trainer project, said that at the Russian Championship in December 2021, a volunteer offered Valieva ice cream and a masseuse tea, which could have led to doping in his body.

— You can’t eat or drink anything before the races, everyone knows that. It is better to take food and water only from the hands of the coach,” Tarasova told .

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.

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.