During the Olympics, 15-year-old Kamila Valijeva was caught banned.
The figure skating at the Beijing Olympics got a dirty laundry. Only a 15-year-old Russian skater at the time of the competition Kamila Valijeva got caught banning substances.
Small amounts of trimetazidine, which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Wada list of banned substances, were found in a sample from Valijeva.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin hosted an awards ceremony for successful athletes in Beijing. President Vladimir Putin took a position on the case of Valijeva.
– Valijeva made sport an art. It is not possible to achieve such perfection with performance-enhancing agents. We know very well that the substances are not useful in figure skating, Putin claimed Reuters by.
Valijeva was the first athlete to make a quadruple jump at the Olympics. Russia won gold in the team race, but the awards ceremony for the race was not held when Valijeva’s squabble came to light.
The International Court of Appeal for Sport, Cas, finally ruled that Valijeva was allowed to continue competing in Beijing.
The individual competition eventually became a sad show. The problems of figure skating became apparent in a harsh way when young Valijeva broke down after a completely failed race. Valijeva finished fourth. His coach did not give mercy, but taught the athlete.
Kamila Valijeva, 16, was present at Vladimir Putin’s invitation. AOP
According to Vladimir Putin, figure skating cannot benefit from doping. AOP