Eteri Tutberidze: “She was clean everywhere – before and after in all the competitions. Why would she be given doping at the Russian Nationals? She was winning all season.”
Translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comments made in an interview for NHK.
original source: sports.ru
In the interview for the Japanese channel NHK, Eteri Tutberidze talks about Valieva’s doping case and suspension of Russian skaters. Here’s a translation of her comments. The interview was recorded in the fall of 2023.
“Q: There are people who think that both the club and the coaches should have controlled a 15-year-old child.
Eteri Tutberidze: I don’t know… First of all, I have a lot of questions: what is this, where did it come from?
No one wanted to think even reasonably. Well, she was clean everywhere – before and after in all the competitions. Why would she be given doping at the Russian Nationals? She was winning all season, she was clean everywhere, and here, let’s give her…
What was needed there? Jump higher? Rotate more? We don’t have seconds when we ran faster or jumped farther, a breakthrough. No, we don’t have that.”
Eteri Tutberidze commented on the suspension of Russian athletes.
“And I did not close the doors. Why not? I don’t know at all, we need to wait, I am sure sooner or later they should let us out.
I have already said this before: I don’t want to complain about fate.
We did not close ourselves off to anyone, we can share what we have – not much, but we have it,” Tutberidze said in an interview with NHK.”
Related topics: Eteri Tutberidze, Kamila Valieva
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