Figure skater Ekaterina Kurakova, representing Poland, said that Russian woman Kamila Valieva, who was at the center of the scandal with a doping test, deserves respect, like all participants in the Olympics. Kurakova's words are quoted by Match TV.
“It seems to me that in such a situation, you need to touch on the topic as little as possible, talk about it, behave normally. We are all people. Everyone has their own difficult situations in life. Camila deserves respect. I would not like to touch on this situation and comment on it in any way. Every person who is here deserves respect. It doesn’t matter which country he plays for and what place he occupies. As for the holiday of the Olympics, it is, of course, felt, ”said Kurakova.
The IOC said that the results of Valieva at the Olympics will be considered preliminary to the 2022 Olympics Muscovite Kurakova in 2018 changed sports citizenship to Polish. At the Beijing Olympics, she is listed 24th in the short program, and following the results of two rentals, she scored 185.84 points.
On February 7, Valieva won the gold of the Olympics in team competitions, however, after receiving a positive result from a doping test, passed back at the end of December last year, the issue of her further participation in the Games was decided in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which eventually allowed the skater to compete in personal competitions .
Fonbet considers Valieva the favorite of the personal tournament, bets on her final victory are accepted with a coefficient of 1.30, on the victory of Anna Shcherbakova - with a coefficient of 4.30, Alexandra Trusova - with a coefficient of 13.00.
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