Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva faced a very difficult situation at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, but she is only 15 years old and can still prove everything to everyone and win her Olympics. This figure skater, Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov said on Thursday, February 17.
According to the athlete, Valieva has all the data for this.
“Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova are fighters and well done, but they didn’t have such a difficult situation as Kamila Valieva, on whom everything fell at once: leadership in the short program, and all these proceedings later, press pressure, doping-shmoping. It was at the age of 15, of course, they morally broke the girl, they didn’t let her perform normally, ”Kostomarov said in an interview with the TV channel“360“.
He added that at the Olympic Games (OI) a variety of situations are possible, and not everyone manages to cope with some of them. According to him, now Valieva needs to rest and continue to work.
“She has all the data and chances and physical, and how she skates, and how technical and artistic she is. She has every chance to take her gold, ”Kostomarov emphasized.
He noted performance by Alexandra Trusovawhich today inscribed itself in history after performing an extremely difficult free program.
“I think it is unlikely that during our lifetime someone will make five quads in a free program from girls. Therefore, congratulations to the whole team of Eteri Tutberidze. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! But not without a share of bitterness,” he concluded.
Earlier on Thursday, Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova in an interview with the publication “Sport-Express”expressed deep regret due to the fact that Valieva took fourth place in the free program of single skating at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. She stressed that Trusova showed what figure skating will look like in the future, according to the website. kp.ru.
Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova won the gold medal in women’s single skating. NSN. Silver went to Alexandra Trusova.
At the same time, Trusova became the first figure skater in the world to perform five quadruple jumps in the program.
Third at the Olympics was the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto.
Valieva, who was in the lead after the short program, took fourth place. During the performance, she made several mistakes, fell twice, writes “reedus“.
Thanks to the figure skaters, the Russian Olympic Committee team has now won five gold, nine silver and 12 bronze medals.
At the Beijing Olympics, a scandal erupted around 15-year-old Valieva due to a dubious doping test. A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited laboratory in Stockholm reported that the test, which was passed on December 25, found traces of trimetazidine, which is prohibited by the rules. The figure skater was temporarily suspended from the competition, but the decision was successfully challenged.
On February 14, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the appeals of WADA and the IOC and allowed the Russian woman to compete at the Olympic Games. The Russian Olympic Committee, commenting on the situation, indicated that Valieva received negative doping test results before and after December 25, and the athlete’s sample after the team tournament in Beijing also turned out to be clean, like all other samples taken during the Olympics.
However, because of what happened, Valieva came under close attention, especially in foreign media, and faced psychological pressure.
Olympics 2022 takes place from 4 to 20 February, the Paralympics – from 4 to 13 March. The games will be held in three clusters at once – in Beijing (hockey, figure skating, speed skating, curling), Zhangjiakou (biathlon, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping) and Yanqing (alpine skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton and luge).
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