Gleikhengauz – about the Valieva case: “This is the complete moral destruction of a person”

Daniel Gleikhengauz choreographer of the group of Honored Coach of Russia Eteri Tutberidze declared that the skater Kamila Valieva morally destroyed, erasing all the many years of work of the athlete and his team.

On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended Valieva, 17, for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The court release noted that the skater was unable to provide convincing evidence that the violation was unintentional. The disqualification period begins on December 25, 2021. The International Skating Union (ISU) announced that all of the athlete’s results from the date of sample collection have 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 was impossible to hold back emotions, thoughts, experiences for a long time, and I want to express them.” I’ll start with Camila herself. Such athletes appear in professional sports once every several years! It’s very rare when everything comes together in one person. Talent, hard work, beauty and much more. Kamila is a universal athlete who possesses skating, ultra-si elements, incredible rotations and image presentation.

All his years of work and those of our team were wiped out in an instant! What she experienced at the age of 15 and what she is still experiencing, no one deserves! This is the complete moral destruction of a person. The main rule of the protected person has been violated. “I won’t go into detail about how this actually happened and how much time each of us spent with her and tried to support her, but it all happened and it wouldn’t have could not have been otherwise, we are all human beings, and we have hearts,” Gleikhengauz wrote on a social network.