Herboldt: “Valieva will have enough motivation to return after the CAS decision”

Russian junior figure skating champion Katharina Gerboldt believes that Kamila Valieva there will be motivation to continue playing after the disqualification period ends.

On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended figure skater Valieva for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The disqualification period begins on December 25, 2021. The ISU later 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.

– It’s been such a long time. For any athlete, two years, four years is a long time. I think she will be motivated enough to come back. On the other hand, it is a severe blow to the child’s psyche. I still don’t know how to deal with this,” Gerboldt quotes Gazeta.Ru.

Before the personal tournament at the Beijing Olympics, it became known that the banned drug trimetazidine was found during Valieva’s doping test at the Russian Championship. The CAS allowed the Russian to participate in the individual competitions at the Games, where she finished fourth, but this result was also annulled. The athlete also lost the title of European champion, the title went to Anna Shcherbakova.

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