Trust me, I'm in absolutely no way trying to shift any blame from any adults involved in doping her, regardless of whether they were directly responsible or "merely" overlooked, failed to report, or otherwise enabled it. I entirely agree we should identify every one of them, and we should ban them for as long as we can.
I'm forgetting what? The actual doping violation this is all about, don't be absurd. The 3 drug cocktail is in the papers today so I decided to comment about it. But this CAS hearing was about the provisional suspension, Valieva isn't in the clear yet.
If you've been groomed to trust someone in authority why would you express views against it at all?
TMZ is a substance only available by prescription. Even in Russia.
This is false.
Just my opinion....You know, I pretty much agree with this. I have been watching this "so sweet 15 year old" switch on and off the "I'm only 15" vulnerability" into a steely resolve once she takes to the ice. Then when she is done skating, she either falls to her knees crying like she's just gone through the most painful experience of her life, or she starts crying. Don't get me wrong. There could be both sides to the athlete but you can only milk the "poor little me" cow for so long until you get called out. I find the grandpa story as credible as the scene in the Sound of Music movie where the kids are lying to their dad about visiting Maria at the convent. Their cover story was they were picking blueberries and when their dad pointed out it was strawberry season, one kid answered there were picking strawberries that had turned blue because it was so cold.I remember Kamila's interview after she won the Euros ( I was going to link it but could not find it anymore on the youtube) and her innocent sweet face and the sweet way she said - I am only fifteen... so sweet so innocent...(I can't even remember the question she was answering)
Nobody knew then how this particular phrase will haunt as right now I feel that I shall scream if I hear ''she is only 15'' one more time!
I must say I can not remember a time when a figure skater was everywhere, I was eating breakfast this morning and a guy on the morning show on Lyric FM talked about Kamila... in Ireland, guys, in Ireland!!! The rugby land where if you ask anyone on the street if they know anything about FS, they would look at you like you an alien from another planet... I guess the bad publicity is still good publicity?
Now about sweetness of Kamila (and other Eteri's girls) that has been projected on us quite a lot- I am sceptical about that tbh. In Russia sweetness would not get you to the top, such fierce competition in ladies FS is there. You might think Kamila is unique and so on but there are probably a dozen of other Kamilas who are equally talented but simply didn't make it for variety of reasons - parents had no money, injuries and so on. Kamila also was lucky to be born when she was born that is a big plus for Eteri (Alina & Yulia before her) These girls could look very sweet where in reality they are probably hard as nails and can swear like a sailor. They have to be.
So frankly, I am not buying that she did not know what she was doing etc, being 15 yo in the elite sport is different from ordinary 15y that the main responsibility is still with the adults around her. She might or might have not known but due to her age she is not able to grasp all the consequences and significance of what's happening. That's a real problem.
I wonder if fans are not more naïve than the 15yo-only KV...
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It's one thing if the laws and rules in place do not assign blame to the protected person, its a whole other thing to look at all the evidence available to us and say, "at some level, she had to have known, or was incredibly negligent in what she was putting into her body." I'm glad there are rules in place that SHOULD legally assign blame to the adults around her, but that doesn't mean I (a member of the general public) am precluded from reaching logical conclusions based on the evidence available - that this professional athlete wasn't completely blind to what she was ingesting. We can't ignore the performance enhancing effect the supplements had, and now she seems pressured to be protecting her team - and both of these things have been reasons to disqualify skaters in the past (Calalang and Kostner, respectively and without regard to the skaters' justifications). This is bolstered by the fact that so many skaters have come out recently (Tara, Adam Rippon, Mariah Bell, Johnny Weir, etc) who have all said that from the around TEN YEARS OLD, that they were trained and told that they were responsible for whatever they put in their body.
Doping? Doping matters!
In fairness, that could be said of many skaters. When Michelle Kwan first started skating on the senior level, I remember thinking how much older she looked in makeup and costume. The effects of makeup can be astonishing.
then make a podium for 30 skaters... i mean they are all victims of this mess.. the event has become a circus.
her fans are naive because we believed she was following the same rules and held to the same standard as everyone else? or because Russia isn't even competing under their own flag and we should have expected them to still be cheating all along?
You assume this "grooming" (brainwashing?) process has occurred. There is no evidence of that. Most 15 year olds are well able to express their opposing views to their parents. (A lot of parents probably wish that weren't the case!)
