There is a recording. “A higher level of absurdity”. Putin and the defense ministry step into action

The website sports.ru, which refers to Wiaczes³aw Fetisov, informs about the meeting. Former outstanding – two-time Olympic gold medalist, seven-time world champion, who today is a member of the Duma. And on Friday, he himself showed up at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where Walijew was visited by crowds of Russian fans.

. A story that began with a doping scandal and ended with a great sports sensation, because Walijewa did not win a medal in the soloists’ competition on Thursday. The 15-year-old skater – although the short program was perfect and followed it – she made mistake after error in any routine, fell just behind the podium and broke up completely.

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The emotions connected with the journey made Walijewa to tears. The girl was devastated when she had already rolled off the ice. And at the gangs another sadness awaited her – which did not intend to console Walijewa, but immediately fell into criticism. “Why did you give up? Tell me why? Why did you stop fighting? Why did you give up after this ax?” – asked Tutberidze.

Putin met with Walijew. The Ministry of National Defense recorded a video

Walijewa gave up, but another Tutberidze player won the gold: who was ahead of her peer, Aleksandra Trusova, who also represented the Russian Olympic Committee, and 21-year-old Japanese Kaori Sakamoto. Walijewa finished fourth, but she is still the center of attention. “I’ve never cared more for anyone,” says Fetisov, revealing that Walijewa is also supported by Vladimir Putin himself, who has already met the 15-year-old after her return from Beijing.

And not only him, because support also comes from other Duma politicians and government institutions. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation even recorded a short propaganda video in which a young girl – presumably a Valijeva – is protected by the Russian army on the ice. Not even before widespread criticism, as before officials of WADA – the World Doping Agency combating doping in sport, of which he has been president for two years.

The Russians, or at least the Ministry of National Defense, see this organization as the greatest threat in the context of Walijewa. WADA herself claims that the culprit of the confusion is RUSADA – the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, which should indicate, when returning a sample of Walijewa to the laboratory, that the examination of her result as a competitor going to the Olympics.

“I asked her to smile”

But RUSADA did not mark it. The whole thing came out only at the Olympics, where the positive result of the test was confirmed by the International Research Agency (ITA). But although the Games are just coming to an end, this is not the end of the case of Walijeva, who has already returned to Moscow. – At first she was a bit scared, but I told her that everyone supported her here and that she was not guilty of anything – Fetisov relates the meeting with Walijew.

– I also asked her to smile, because these four years will pass quickly and it will refute the stereotype that young champions are able to reach for gold only at one Olympics – adds Fetisow, gold with the hockey team of the USSR was reached twice: in 1984 at the Olympics in Sarajevo and four years later in Calgary.

“A higher level of absurdity”. Yes, the Russians defend Walijewa

Theoretically, Walijewa already has one gold. But that’s right: theoretically, because although she led the Russian Olympic Committee to win the team competition at the Beijing Olympics, the medal ceremony has not yet taken place. It was recalled until the doping scandal of a 15-year-old girl was cleared up, which at the end of December – although it only came out at the Olympics – had a positive anti-doping test result.

In Walijewa, a drug used in ischemic heart disease was detected, but also a drug that accelerates metabolism and increases tolerance of physical effort, which has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of prohibited substances since 2013. The Russian defenders put forward the absurd theory that trimetazidine was found in her body by accident. .