Figure skater Kamila Valieva said she is preparing for projects next season
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva answered a question about her plans for the next season. Her words are quoted by TASS.
“I don’t think far ahead, I’m preparing for projects, recovering and training,” said the 17-year-old athlete. She emphasized that in the 2023/2024 season, the coaching staff offered several options for a new program, of which she chose one.
In January, the RUSADA disciplinary committee, which is a body independent from the main organization, informed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of Valieva’s innocence. At the same time, the skater was deprived of gold at the 2022 Russian Championship. Later, the International Skating Union and WADA filed appeals with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which called for the athlete to be disqualified and her results annulled. Hearings on the case will take place from September 26 to 29.
At the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, Valieva won gold in the team competition, but the Russian team was not awarded due to a doping scandal involving her. Traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in the skater’s sample from December 2021. At the same time, CAS allowed her to participate in the individual tournament, where she took fourth place.
Source: Lenta
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