“We will be oppressed and banished with terrible force. Nobody needs us as competitors” – Loza on Valieva’s disqualification

Singer and composer Yuri Loza, commenting on the disqualification of the figure skater Kamila Valieva said , that the Russians will continue to spread and be banned with terrible force in order to be removed from the pedestal.

On Monday, the CAS suspended Valieva for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The disqualification period begins on December 25, 2021. Later, the International Skating Union announced that all of the athlete’s results from the date of sample collection had been canceled. This also led to a review of the results of the 2022 Olympics team tournament, where the Russian team won. First place is now awarded to the American team, the Japanese are second and the Russians will receive bronze.

— No one needs us as competitors. They will oppress us and banish us with terrible force in order to knock us off the pedestal. This will never end. We have always been enemies to them, because we are big and rich, and the others are stifled by envy. And also talented. They hate us simply because we exist. It is clear that Valieva is currently practically the strongest. There was no reason to punish her like that,” Loza told .

Valieva at the Beijing Olympics helped the Russian team win gold in the team competition. Before the personal tournament, it became known that the banned drug trimetazidine was found in the doping sample of the figure skater of the Russian championship. The CAS allowed the Russian to participate in the individual competitions at the Games, where she finished fourth. The award ceremony for the winners of the team tournament has not yet taken place.