Three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina commented on the disqualification of figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years, noting that we need to learn a lesson for our successful future. Sports24.
“Now many incomprehensible publications in the West will talk and write about the details of the Valieva case. Anabolic steroids or anything else is noise that you don’t need to react to harshly, it just works,” Rodnina said.
On January 29, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended Valieva for four years for violating anti-doping rules due to the presence of a banned substance in her blood. The penalty period will be notified starting from December 2021.
Valieva, among other things, lost the gold medals of the Russian Championship 2022 and the gold medal of the European Championship 2022, where a sample that gave a positive result for a banned drug was taken.
The lawyer who previously represented Valieva clarified case details.