Athletistic / Figure skating. Olympic figure skating champion in the team championships Kamila Valieva spoke about her own results at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing (China). There she became the winner of the team championship, and in individual skating she took only fourth place.

All this happened against the backdrop of a doping scandal. During the Olympics, it became known that the figure skater tested positive at the Russian championships.

“I went to the Olympics, with one hundred percent of the strength I had left, probably… I was lucky enough to compete four times. The first two times, I didn’t even realize I was at the Olympics. When that’s your overall goal, you’re already in the starting position and you think: This is what I’ve been looking for for so long? You’re in a kind of prostration.

The numbers of the skaters in the short program of the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Kazan have been announced: Valieva will come out ninth

In fact… It’s the Olympics, your goal was to give it your all. These medals that exist… I don’t even know. It is difficult to speculate. Sorry. You have to appreciate what you have. Maybe fourth place is sadder than silver, when we were one step away from the podium. It just didn’t happen. It’s a shame, but there is something to achieve. I don’t know.

I said a silver medal is something wrong. But on a bigger scale, you have a medal, you won it, you are one of the winners. Fourth place is probably more offensive than second,” Valieva said in an interview with Channel One.


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