Tarasova appreciated Valieva’s demand to return her gold at the 2022 Russian Championship

Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova appreciated the demand of figure skater Kamila Valieva to return the gold of the 2022 Russian Championship to her. The specialist’s words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

“As a professional trainer who has worked for 50 years, I think what she is doing is very right. She will be executed for no reason,” Tarasova supported the athlete.

Earlier on September 15, it became known that on September 26, 27 and 28, Valieva will take part in hearings of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) via video link. It is noted that the skater demands that the gold of the Russian Championship 2022 be returned to her and her results not be annulled.

In January, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s disciplinary committee, 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 CAS, which called for the athlete to be disqualified and her results annulled.

At the 2022 Olympic Games, Valieva won gold in the team competition, but the Russian team was not awarded due to the 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.