Sambo-70 President Laishev predicted the victory of figure skater Valieva in the doping case
President of the Sambo-70 school Renat Laishev predicted the victory of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva in the doping case. His words are quoted by Tatar-Inform.
“So much time has passed that [тренер Этери] Tutberidze and Valieva have already won. Since the case has been so delayed, it means that the other side doesn’t know what else to come up with, what to throw at Valieva in order to punish us,” Laishev said. In his opinion, Valieva won the team tournament of the 2022 Olympic Games and became one of the best figure skaters in the world.
In January, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s disciplinary committee, a body independent from the main organization, informed the World Anti-Doping Agency of Valieva’s innocence. At the same time, the skater was deprived of gold at the 2022 Russian Championship.
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, the Court of Arbitration for Sport allowed her to participate in the individual tournament, where she took fourth place.
Source: Lenta
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