Yana Rudkovskaya, wife of two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko, said that figure skater Kamila Valieva deservedly took third place at the Russian Championships in Chelyabinsk. “Soviet sport”.
“This result is quite fair and honest. I saw the result, I think everything is deserved. This shows that he cannot be the best today,” said Rudkovskaya.
Valieva fell out of a four-piece sheepskin coat in her free program. Another student of Eteri Tutberidze, Adelia Petrosyan, won the tournament. Second place was taken by Sofia Muravyova (student of Evgeni Plushenko). After the short program, Valieva took the lead, almost three points ahead of Petrosyan.
Valieva became the winner of the Russian Championship in 2021. A banned substance was later found in his blood. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) decided to cancel the figure skater’s result at the national championships. This did not prevent the athlete from competing at the Olympic Games in Beijing, where he won the gold medal in the team tournament.
Previously Valieva carried out Demonstration performance of a song from “The Boy’s Word”.