Athletistic / Figure skating. Coach and director Daniil Gleikhengauz, who worked with Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, spoke about the athlete’s disqualification. Previously, the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended her for four years for doping.

As a result, the Russian team was deprived of gold medals at the team championship of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing (China). After reviewing the results, the Russians fell to 3rd place.

“I have kept my emotions, my thoughts, my experiences inside me for an impossible time and I want to express them all here.

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 has incredible skating skills, ultra-si elements, spins and 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.

American figure skater Hubbell reacted to Valieva’s disqualification

Our team is for clean sport, there should be no doping in sport, we have never resorted to it and never will! Everyone knows we have a system. So what is the logic here: doping one of the athletes? I don’t understand!

I don’t understand how this substance got into Kamila’s sample, I know for sure that none of us could advise our athlete to dope, and I am sure in Kamila that she never used it intentionally. I myself would give much to discover the truth about how the substance ended up in his sample.

In any case, our guilt is present, since we did not protect our athlete. This makes my soul sad and painful,” Gleikhengauz wrote on social media.


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