Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was suspected of doping during the Olympic Games, returned from Beijing to Moscow.
According to an RBC correspondent, the athlete flew to Sheremetyevo Airport. There, she was met by dozens of fans, but Valieva refused to communicate with journalists and fans.
The rest of the Russian skaters remained in Beijing, where they will perform with demonstration numbers. Valieva was not invited to the gala show by the organizers.
Valieva and other Olympic medalists will be presented for state awards 2022 Olympics On February 7, Valieva took gold in the team competition. 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, but banned from athletes since 2015). Valieva had to seek admission to the personal tournament in Beijing through the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The story of Kamila Valieva. From "The Girl on the Ball" to the 2022 Olympics Doping Scandal In the individual competitions, she was considered the favorite and at first confirmed the predictions of the experts by skating the short program with the best result. However, in the free program, Camila made a series of gross mistakes, which did not allow her to fight for medals: she took only fourth place (224.09 points). Russian Anna Shcherbakova (255.95 points) became the champion in women's single skating, her compatriot Alexandra Trusova (251.73) was second (251.73), and Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (233.13) took third place.
Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images Kamila Valieva, who was the leader after the short program, took to the ice after a clean skater Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who became the first figure skater in history to land five quadruple jumps in a major tournament. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images Valieva made several mistakes in the program at once. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images She started with a clean quadruple Salchow, and after landing a triple Axel, she touched her hand to the ice. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images After the first mistakes, the skater could not pull herself together and then made a step-out on a quadruple sheepskin coat. And after the triple salchow that went with him in the cascade, she fell. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images Next came a clean triple loop, and then a second fall on a quad toe loop. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images Valieva completed her performance with a combination of triple flip - triple toe loop, triple lutz - triple toe loop (step-out). Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images After completing the program, the 15-year-old Russian woman initially tried to contain her emotions. The favorite in the fight for gold understood that she had missed the first place with such a rental. Valieva was unable to cope with the pressure that was put on her in connection with the doping scandal. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images In the end, after winning the short (82.16), she finished fifth in the free program (141.93). She placed fourth overall, more than nine points behind Japan's Kaori Sakamoto in third. Seeing the result, Valieva sobbed. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images Eteri Tutberidze, figure skater Kamila Valieva's coach, commented to her pupil on the free skate at the Beijing Olympics immediately after she left the ice. Tutberidze's words got into the television broadcast of the figure skaters' competitions. “Why did you let go of everything? Why did you stop wrestling at all, explain? Somewhere after the axel, you let go at all, ”said Tutberidze Valieva.
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