The four years at the Olympics were similar. There the soloists’ tournament was won by the Russian. She defeated her favored compatriot Yevgeny Medvedev and also rejoiced alone – silently, looking sadly at the plush toy. It was the same on Friday in Beijing, where she was ahead of her teammate Aleksandra Trusowa and 21-year-old Japanese Kaori Sakamoto. But most of all, she turned out to be better than another Russian woman: the 15-year-old, who took fourth place, and whom the whole world is talking about now.
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“The sight of Szczerbakowa after winning the gold medal breaks the heart, but it is a view we are used to. It is already a tradition that Olympic champions in skating are lonely and sad” – writes the website sports.ru, which resembles the Olympics in Pyongyang and the story of Medvedev and Zagitova, who then commented her lack of joy in the following way: – I do not mind that I won with my friend. But I am a person who does not show joy in public, rather I keep it to myself.
“I still don’t realize that the competition is over”
There was also no great joy in Szczerbakowa. – On the one hand I feel great joy, on the other – emptiness – said the gold medalist from Beijing. – I still don’t realize that the competition is over. I have some strange tension in me, as if I had to step onto the ice and show something. I don’t understand this situation. Probably only tomorrow I will realize everything that has just happened – she added.
Emotions, on the other hand, were evident in Walijewa, who completely fell apart after her unsuccessful performance. Not only after her, but also after Trusowa, who fell into a frenzy after winning the silver. – I hate everyone, I hate it! I hate this sport! I’ll never go out on the ice again, it’s impossible! You can’t do it that way. Everyone has a gold medal, everyone! Not me! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! You knew everything! -.
On Friday, Trusowa made as many as five quad jumps, but that was not enough to make the gold. She, too, like Walijewa, cried out after the ride. – I wanted to cry, so I cried. I am alone for three weeks, without my parents, my dogs. So I’m crying, she said.
However, Szerbakova did not want to comment on the behavior of her friends. When asked what she would say to Trusowa after today’s emotions, she replied: – She knows. I told her personally and I don’t want to repeat it in front of the camera.
The head of the IOC speaks about Valijeva. “Over the years of work, I have heard many lies”
However, now everyone is talking about the success of Szczerbakowa or the silver medal of Trusowa. The subject is primarily Walijewo, in which the International Research Agency (ITA) confirmed during the Olympics that at the end of December she had tested positive for doping tests -. A drug used in ischemic heart disease, but also influencing the acceleration of metabolism and increasing the tolerance of physical effort, which since 2013 has been on the list of prohibited substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
“Don’t you feel that the responsibility for this story also rests with the media, which used the situation for their own purposes, staged harassment and intimidation of the athlete? That what started after the news about Welsiewa’s positive testimony is much worse than the reaction of Tutberidze right after her speech? – asked the reporter of the Russian government television Pervy Kana³, the president of the IOC, at a press conference on Friday
“I think the most important thing has already been covered in this question, which is that the test was positive,” replied Bach. – Over the years of work, I have heard many lies, many attempts to explain doping. One thing I know for sure: doping is very rarely done alone, most often it is a matter of the athlete’s environment – added the head of the IOC.
– It is the environment that most often pushes an athlete to doping, and even forces him to do so. We are now talking about a 15-year-old girl, but we are also talking about a 15-year-old girl who had a prohibited substance in her body. The one who brought it about is the perpetrator of everything, Bach concluded.
This case is still ongoing. Although the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the motion to temporarily suspend Walijewa on Monday, the IOC said that if the 15-year-old won a medal on Thursday, the award ceremony would be postponed. The same as before, it was postponed in the case of the team competition, where Walijewa led the Russian Olympic Committee to gold at the Beijing Olympics.
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