Kamila Valieva said that fourth place at the Olympic Games is more offensive than second
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva spoke in an interview with Channel One about the emotions of performing at the Olympic Games.
Valieva noted that she was lucky enough to compete on the Olympic ice four times. “The first two times you don’t even realize you’re at the Olympics. When this is your global goal, you are already standing in the initial pose and thinking: “Is this what I’ve been working towards for so long?” And you are in some kind of prostration,” she said.
Valieva also compared fourth and second place at the Olympic Games. According to the skater, taking fourth place is more offensive than taking a place on the podium.
At the 2022 Olympics, Valieva won gold in the team competition, but the winners – the teams of Russia, the USA and Japan – were 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, Valieva was allowed to take part in the individual tournament, where she took fourth place.
Source: Lenta
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