Are we gonna pretend we don't understand who they is? Her team: coaches, doctors. Her handlers, parents. Them.
I just think it’s highly likely she’s been put under tremendous pressure to sell a particular story. Maybe her family too. Though I doubt we’ll ever know for sure what’s gone on.
Now am unwatching or blocking this thread...
I believe an IOC official said it was her defence.
Not sure having two girls from the same coach on the top of the podium would be something that may appease the people who are angry with Valieva skating... Most people are sympathetic to her but not to her environment... so having her, and Anna or Sasha on top of the podium, may trigger even more problems...
Yes, and the article is seemingly more applicable to endurance athletes, but it's the closest academic research I can find on this particular topic of Russian attitudes to these matters. I admit I cannot read Russian, though, which certainly limits my possibilities.
The bigger the lie, the more they believe. Dogs don't eat only slippers, they can also eat homework.
What you are forgetting is that TMZ was found in her system plus a cocktail of body enhancing medications. This means that she doped herself, grandpa doped her or her cronies doped her. There is Zero tolerance of doping at the Olympics. That’s why Johnny, Tara and every Tom, Dick and Harry in the figure skaing world are upset over, she shouldn’t have been allowed to skate. The clean hardworking athletes didn’t want her in the ice. Shame, Shame, Shame…put the blame on the BYT because they told the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts..
I just don't read certain posters.
I suspect there's a lot of that on both sides of the discussion.
“There can be completely different ways how it [trimetazidine] got [into Valieva’s body], said lawyer Kozmenko -For example..."
Of course I don't know, but as a sports journalist wrote in a French newspaper: "She is only 15. She looks much older on the ice and much younger off the ice." That's not very nice, but that's what a lot of people feel about her, I suppose.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.
as Kamila's fan, i feel the same as how Tara and Johnny have expressed- betrayal and disappointment. That this girl, or even possibly these girls, are not honest competitors. How they are shown to the world is not a true image, past results and who we thought they were as athletes is now tainted. Their coaching team and the Crystal school are tainted. It's not what we all thought it was.
But at least one other skater would be on the podium as well. I know that it would not be ideal, but this situation needs a solution asap. We've seen two Gold medals after a scandal in figure skating before.
Exactly my feeling.
