The Russian team should receive gold medals in the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, regardless of the results of the doping case of figure skater Kamila Valieva, the athlete’s coach Eteri stated on November 1 Tutberidze in an interview with the YouTube channel. .Show.
“We know for sure that if athletes are allowed to attend the Olympic Games, then they will be clean, they will receive an Olympic passport, which means everyone will be clean. At the European Championships he did the test, it was clear, then he did it again, it was clear. If they had that analysis out there, it means they had to do whatever it took to get it ready.”– she said.
Tutberidze noted that if the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) allowed Valieva to attend the Olympic Games and her analysis at the games was fair, then the gold medals should be awarded to Russia regardless of the results of the Valiev case. .
“It should not be considered a team medal at all. Whose fault is it that this is an athlete? [Валиева] Did you participate in the team? Whose error is this? Our? No. Was the athlete clean in these Olympic Games? Yes. Questions for who? To the AMA? To the laboratories? Then let them print a new medal or do whatever they want. “It’s your fault.”She explained.
Tutberidze added that if the Russian team had found out earlier that Valieva had a questionable doping test, then Anna Shcherbakova or Alexandra Trusova would have competed and Russia would still have won.
Recall that at the Beijing Olympic Games in February 2022, Russia took first place in the figure skating team championship. Kamila Valieva represented women’s single skating as part of the team.
Before the awards ceremony, WADA announced that Valieva’s doping test, conducted in December 2021, contained a microdose of a banned substance. At the same time, the doping test at the Olympic Games themselves and the doping test at the European Championships, which took place before the Olympic Games, were clean.
As a result, the award ceremony was canceled until the end of the process in the Valieva case, which has not yet been concluded.
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Source: Rossa Primavera
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