Medvedeva apologizes for ‘misinformation’ about death of Valieva’s grandfather

Double world figure skating champion Eugene Medvedeva said she spread false information about her grandfather’s death Kamila Valieva .

Earlier, on the YouTube channel “Rink”, Medvedeva said that Valieva’s grandfather died shortly after the end of the Beijing Olympics.

— My friends, I want to apologize for the misinformation. In one episode of the show, I said that Camila’s grandfather died. This is not true. I remember Camila lost a parent. But it was grandmother. And a few years ago.

The grandfather we talked about during filming is alive and well. And I wish him good health and a long life! I don’t know why I mixed everything up, especially on such a complex subject. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, the nerves…

I apologize again to the viewer, but above all to Camila and her family. The first thing I did was contact Valieva to apologize. You have to admit your mistakes, your reservations, everything. “I am wrong,” Medvedeva wrote on her Telegram channel.

Valieva at the 2022 Games helped the Russian team win a gold medal in the team figure skating tournament. At the end of January, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) disqualified the skater for four years for violating anti-doping rules – trimetazidine was found in a sample taken on December 25, 2021 during the Russian Championship. The athlete’s results from this date were canceled, which led to a redistribution of the team tournament medals: first place was awarded to the American team, the Japanese took second, and the Russians received the bronze. Valieva was also deprived of gold at the European Championship.

According to Valieva, the banned drug could have entered her system with the dessert that her grandfather Gennady Solovyov prepared for her.

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