2008 Russian junior champion Katarina Gerboldt told that the figure skater Kamila Valieva takes the situation with the proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which are no longer as close to his heart as at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The hearings in the Valieva case before the CAS resumed on November 9.
“It’s hard to say that Camila is already used to legal proceedings. But this process lasts quite a long time, so I think she doesn’t take the situation as seriously as she did at the Olympics and in the early days afterward. Can we say that this process hardened her? I can’t say for sure, but it seems to me that she adapted to the situation.
I would like to believe and hope that in Kazan she will show ultra-so elements: triple axel and quadruple jump. But it’s a question for the technical staff. It all depends on how Camila trains and how she feels. Much depends on these factors.
As for his programs, I really liked the short one. I don’t quite understand the free program yet. He will have to be monitored as the season progresses. And the court looked very cool to me,” Gerboldt told .
At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Valieva 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 of the Russian championship. The CAS admitted the Russian to the individual competitions of the Games, where she took fourth place. The award ceremony for the Olympic medalists in the team tournament has not yet taken 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.
Valieva will perform on stage at the Russian Grand Prix in Kazan on November 11-12.
Source : MatchTV
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