Athletistic/Figure skating. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva shared her thoughts on unsuccessful performances in the individual competition at the 2022 Olympics, noting that she was frightened by criticism from coaches due to unsuccessful jumps. At the time of his personal performance, the athlete was already aware of the positive doping test.

“When I realized that I couldn’t do the Salchow and the Axel, and even more so that I couldn’t do the toe loop, I should have skipped the toe loop and not continued trying with the Salchow, but go straight to triple jumps.” But I was afraid that the coaches would be disappointed by my unsuccessful jumps. I probably gave up at that point,” NHK quoted the athlete as saying.

Recall that in January 2024, Kamila Valieva was disqualified for four years for violating anti-doping rules.

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