Honored coach of Russia Eteri Tutberidze spoke regarding the fate of the gold medal in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics.
Gold was won by Russian athletes. After the end of the competition, it became known that the December doping test of Kamila Valieva, who participated in the team tournament, gave a positive result for trimetazidine.
The award ceremony was postponed while the trial of the Valieva case was being held.
“For me, a team medal is a medal of the country, and it is obvious that our country, since it shows the development of four types of figure skating, our country is stronger than the rest in four types.
And if not Camila, but another athlete, or a third, or both, the result would have been the same.
Therefore, it’s just somehow a shame that this whole situation has surfaced here on Olympicsas I understand it, in order for it to sound louder, get more resonance, but we can handle it, ”Tutberidze said on Channel One.