Gallyamov: “Our level is such that even “counting” the scores of five skaters against the allocated six resulted in third place at the Olympic Games”

Russian figure skater Alexander Galliamov who participated in the team tournament at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games with Anastasia Mishina, reacted to the decision of the International Skating Union (ISU) to deprive the Russians of the gold medal, noting the high level of the team even without taking into account the points Kamila Valieva .

On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended Kamila 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 was awarded to the American team, the Japanese took second place, and the Russians received bronze.

— One day, I will become a coach, I will teach children to lift weights. The children of Mark Kondratyuk or Estet (Andrey Mozalev) will ask me: “Uncle Sasha, what was your level when you were skating?

And I will say, proudly adjusting my forelock: “The level is such that even “counting” the scores of five people out of the six allocated resulted in third place. And all this is subject to enormous pressure and other “joys” that are better not to know.

I’m going to say it and look around carefully. “Suddenly Tamara Nikolaevna (Moskvina) and Anastasia Viktorovna (Mishina) are there, looking at me and palming my face,” Gallyamov wrote on the Telegram channel.

The Russian team at the team figure skating tournament included Valieva, Gallyamov/Mishina, Nikita Katsalapov/Victoria Sinitsina and Mark Kondratyuk.