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Zhurova announced unprecedented pressure on Valieva during the Olympics

The reasons for the failures of Kamila Valieva in the free program of the Olympics were the unprecedented pressure on the skater and the failure in preparation for the rental. This was announced to RBC Sport by the 2006 Olympic champion and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova.

“Not only was Camila under unprecedented doping pressure, but [there was] a breakdown in all of her preparations. It's very hard when you get knocked down all the training. So she couldn't handle it. If the IOC (International Olympic Committee. - RBC) had voiced this earlier, she simply would not have come to the Olympics. This must be borne in mind, now we have the opportunity to protect her and defend her fourth place and the first place of our team, ”said Zhurova.

In the Kremlin, the words “the strongest wins” estimated Shcherbakova’s gold at the 2022 Olympics. She noted that she could not blame the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA for pressure in connection with the timing of the publication of the results of Valieva’s test. “But if the same WADA announced the results before the Olympic Games, then we would not have had time to figure it out. She [Valiyeva] simply would not go to the Olympics, you need to take this into account. In this regard, I cannot blame them. But you need to deal with this, and she was given a chance. Then the press did everything, ”she added.

Valieva won a gold medal in the team tournament at the Beijing Games. After that, it was announced that traces of the banned substance trimetazidine were found in a doping sample of a 15-year-old Russian woman taken back in December 2021.

The IOC, WADA and the International Skating Union (ISU) have filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to challenge Valieva's admission to the competition. However, CAS rejected the complaints and recognized the Russian woman as a full participant in the competition.

After that, the IOC announced that the awards ceremony in the team tournament would not take place, as well as the awards ceremony in the individual competitions, if Valieva was in the prize-winners.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), in turn, launched an investigation into the environment of the figure skater in relation to the situation with the doping test.

Zhurova announced unprecedented pressure on Valieva during the Olympics