Kamila Valieva, after her short program at the Beijing Olympics, went down in history as the youngest, most beautiful and most talented figure skater on this planet. Irina Viner-Usmanova, President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, announced this to RBC Sport.

“Valiyeva will go down in history as the youngest, most beautiful and most talented figure skater of this planet, the greatest. She is a brilliant and unique athlete, after such stress she was able to prove to everyone that she is the best. My congratulations, Anya Shcherbakova is beautiful. She also performed excellently. There was a lot of pressure on them because of this situation, but they were able to show everyone their high level, bravo,” Viner said.

Tarasova appreciated the performance of Russian figure skaters in the short program at the 2022 Olympics Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is leading after the short program at the Beijing Olympics. Despite a landing error after the triple Axel, she received a score of 82.16 points for her performance.

The second is Russian Anna Shcherbakova (80.20 points), the third is Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (79.84). Another Russian woman Alexandra Trusova is still in fourth place, she scored 74.60 points.

Competitions in the free program will be held on Thursday, February 17. They will start at 13:00 Moscow time.

Valieva as part of the Russian team won the team tournament at the Beijing Olympics. After the end of the competition, it became known that in her doping test, taken back in December last year, they found a prohibited substance - trimetazidine (used to treat cardiac problems, banned from athletes since 2015). She had to seek the right to participate in the individual championship through sports arbitration.

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