Matytsin condemned Rodnina, who called for more beautiful lies in the Valieva doping case
Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin condemned three-time Olympic champion and State Duma deputy Irina Rodnina for speaking out about the doping case of figure skater Kamila Valieva. His words are quoted by TASS.
“Such public assessments based on one’s own conjectures, not supported by knowledge of the details of the process, are unacceptable; this is a violation of the ethics and culture of the sports community,” Matytsin emphasized. He added that it is worth not creating provocative news feeds for the media, but uniting Russian society through sports.
Earlier, Rodnina called for more beautiful lies in the Valieva case. “Who will believe the fairy tale that she accidentally drank the wrong glass?” – she said.
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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