Athletistic / Figure skating. On February 7, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) published the reasons for its verdict in the case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. It was previously reported that she had been disqualified for four years for anti-doping rule violations.

Now a detailed document has appeared (more than 120 pages), which contains detailed data, testimonies, etc.

We have already presented the main theses of this document. And now we present the reactions of the expert community to the publication of the full text.

Tutberidze ignored the publication of the text

Honored coach of Russia Eteri Tutberidze, who clearly should take full responsibility for Valieva, his student, de facto publicly ignored the publication of the motivational part.

Instead of reacting to the post, she reacted to the leadership of her student Margarita Bazylyuk at the Russian Junior Championships in Saransk. Tutberidze posted a video of Bazylyuk’s rental and used the hashtag #WeWorkFurther. Naturally, such a message on the day of the publication of the full text of the CAS caused confusion.

As usual, the journalist reacted strongly Elena Vaitsekhovskaya.

“The story of Kamila Valieva’s disqualification in the genre most closely resembles a long series, in each subsequent part of which absolutely unexpected characters appear on the screen, firmly connected with the previous plot.

This time (after publication of the reasoned part of the decision), it is “a doctor who could advise”.

“A doctor” advised the athlete certain medications (60 types in total) and, presumably, disappeared into space, if after two years of serious investigation, as we all believed, no trace of this mysterious character was not found.

If this is not a reason to resume a thorough investigation and make its results public, then it would be good to understand one simple thing.

For many years, headlines like “Another brilliant student will show a stunt with two quads” will be associated exclusively with the “quad” that Kamila received from CAS,” Vaitsekhovskaya wrote on her Telegram channel.

A famous coach doubted the situation Alexandre Jouline. He supported Valieva, but admitted that the situation was getting very strange.

“I don’t know what to think anymore. Everything is falling like a snowball. At first they were talking about trimetazidine, now they’re talking about other drugs. It’s a very strange story.

I’m still in favor of not punishing Camila too much. Because it seems to me that there is some sort of impure situation here. Let them understand.

I don’t think Camila knew anything about it and didn’t even imagine it. But this is only my holy faith and my hypothesis,” Zhulin is quoted in Sport-Express.

A similar position was taken by the former speed skater, now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Svetlana Jourova.

“I understand that Camila did absolutely nothing intentionally. It’s clear that a 15 year old child did absolutely nothing intentionally. And CAS didn’t take that into account.

There may be many options as to how it could have entered his body. But she herself absolutely does not understand this, does not know it and will never dare to do it.

That’s why Bach said that since he entered the body, adults should have been more careful,” Zhurova said, as quoted by Sport-Express.

Anton Mozgovoy, Athletistic


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