[Sports Road News]International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Bach criticized the team behind Russia’s 15-year-old figure skating “genius girl” Kamila Valieva at a press conference on Friday (18th). The way they treated Hua Liwa following the free skating match was utterly disgusting.
Bach told a news conference: “I saw what seemed like a huge indifference to how Valiva’s closest team members received her, and it was chilling to see that. Instead of comforting her, try to help her, you You can feel this creepy atmosphere, this distance.” Bach bluntly said that the pressure on Hualiwa was definitely “more than he might imagine.”
Hua Liwa, who was caught up in the doping scandal, was in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating free skating on Thursday (17th) night. Although Bach did not name and criticize Hualiwa’s coach Eteri Tutberidze, the camera captured her not only not hugging and comforting her lover who was walking off the ice following the game, but also to the visibly lost at the time. Hua Liwa “fired” and asked her, “Why did you give up the game? Why did you stop fighting? Explain to me, why?”
Bach continued: “All of this makes me not have much confidence in Hua Liva, the closest team behind it, both in terms of what happened in the past, and in terms of the future. How should we deal with it? A 15-year-old underage athlete under obvious mental stress?”
Regarding this doping scandal, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has stated that its independent intelligence and investigation department will investigate Hua Liva’s team, including her coach, doctors, and every adult around her.
Source: Comprehensive foreign media
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[Beijing Winter Olympics]The team coldly treated Bach, chairman of IOC, the genius girl who lost the medal: the behavior is disgusting」
