Olympic diving champion and journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya named the figure skater Kamil Valiev the most dramatic figure of the Olympic season, and also expressed the opinion that currently the coach Eteri Tutberidze can’t refuse to work with her.
Valieva, who turned 16 in April, competed in the team competition at the Beijing Games in February, where the Russians won the gold medal. The day after the free program of the team tournament, it was learned that Valieva’s doping test, carried out at the Russian championships in December, contained the banned drug trimetazidine. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared Valieva to enter the singles competition, where she finished fourth. The investigation into this case is still ongoing.
– I will be captain of Evidence and I will write that Kamila Valieva is the most dramatic figure of the Olympic season. If she, after two absolutely incredible performances in Beijing, won an individual tournament, the Games would have turned into a drama for someone else (and such a victory would certainly have eclipsed Trusova’s five quads), and Camila herself would have become a heroine and a legend.
But she didn’t win. And all the current remarks in the direction of the figure skater that she is an Olympic champion even without a personal victory, here is a somewhat premature and rather insidious game: the title, until the final verdict, seems to hang only by a thread which can break at any time. And Camila herself will not be responsible for this at all, despite all the expressed versions – my personal opinion.
That’s why I really want her to stay. Skate until the next Games and skate well. She’s got it all, and I didn’t exaggerate at all when I said in a podcast that no other figure skater in the world has such arms, such legs, muscle strength, sharpness, eyes , intelligence, expressiveness… Valieva in this look is like a chest, filled with unspeakable riches. The lid was open and everyone was out of breath.
But the current Valieva is also a great quest for her own trainer. She grew up and very (after all she’s been through) matured. It seems to me that it will no longer be possible to fit it into the standard framework of the principles adopted at school. You will have to reckon with it.
That is, it is on this material that Eteri Tutberidze will have to prove that she can work for a long time with adult and accomplished athletes. This is the most difficult task.
It is impossible to refuse to work with Valieva, no matter how much she has grown and lost her previous skills, if it suddenly happens in the offseason. Because in this case, the blame for everything that happened to the athlete, in the eyes of so many people, will fall on the shoulders of the coach. And for doping, and for two starts in the team, and for many other things.
It seems to me that Tutberidze understands all this much better than anyone: in terms of craft and all its nuances, he is a genius (I probably won’t mention the word “criminal”, thrown around by Dave Leese). In the end, five years ago, she herself said a wonderful phrase: “I always say to athletes: each of you has different pencils. And you have to draw with the colors you have.
Well, it’s time to remember Bulat Okudzhava: “You draw, you draw, you will be credited…” Vaitsekhovskaya wrote on her Telegram channel.
Source : MatchTV
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