Evgeni Malkin, Russian forward of the National Hockey League (NHL) club “Pittsburgh Penguins”, is the wife of Anna Kasterova Telegram-the channel called out to figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was disqualified due to doping, and urged her to believe in herself.
“You are 15 years old, the whole world is at your feet. “We are talking about the greatest Russian athlete, Kamila Valieva, who, at such a young age and with the status of a ‘protected person’, became the victim of the big game of adults, which brought her and her team a gold medal,” Kasterova wrote. .
CAS’s decision to ban the athlete for four years, effective from December 2021, was announced on January 29.
As part of the Russian national team at the 2022 Olympic Games, Valieva took first place in the team tournament and fourth in the individual championship. After his disqualification, the International Skating Union (ISU) awarded the Russians third place, without depriving Russia of the overall medals. Gold went to the US team and silver went to the Japanese team.
Student Eteri Tutberidze lost the gold medal at the Russian Championships 2022 and the gold medal at the European Championships 2022, where, among other things, a sample was taken that gave a positive result for a banned drug.
Previously in the USA statedThat Russia shouldn’t have won an Olympic medal because of Valieva.