Tatiana Tarasova: “There is no doping in Russian figure skating. I don’t know who could be giving or taking banned substances among us. The US is doing everything so that we do not participate in the next Winter Olympics either.”
Tatiana Tarasova on stated that there is no doping in Russian figure skating.
original source: MatchTV / TASS
Previously, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service warned about upcoming investigations in the US regarding doping in Russian sports.
“The most powerful ‘strike’ is being prepared against artistic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and figure skating,” the SVR stated.
Tatiana Tarasova commented on this news, here’s a translation.
“There is no doping in Russian figure skating. I don’t know who could be giving or taking banned substances among us. After competitions, our skaters undergo doping control, and there have been no questions raised about them.
The US simply wants to target us in disciplines where we are stronger. Let them try, they won’t succeed in tarnishing our sport,” said the honored coach of the USSR for ‘Match TV’.
“They prefer it without us at the competitions. The US is doing everything so that we do not participate in the next Winter Olympics either. After each competition, we have doping control, which the ISU conducts immediately, practically while skaters are still wearing skates. And if there was anything, they would have identified it right away,” TASS quotes Tarasova.
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Chew on this: the Russian national championships are pretty extreme, pretty heated and a fierce competition. Do you think RUSADA or any other anti-doping Russian agencies, would let those girls, who are competing against each other, simply get away with doping? Fingers would start pointing quickly, and there would be a whole uproar, besides the conspiracies and rumors spread about other coaches and their methods. Heck, in other to unify the sport, you would like to remove any inkling of wrong doing. Those girls who stand on the podium, at the Russian national championships, have clawed their way up through hard work and pure grit. Besides, those who have coached them deserve a medal for their effort to get them their. Their there for a reason, not because they chose to take the quick, easy, and dishonorable route. (Also, by an extent, you are calling RUSADA and any other Russian anti-doping systems, corrupt, and thus, following logic, undermining their whole purpose, statement, and goal. And, these anti-doping systems extend beyond figure skating, to all other national sports, thus compromising the national standing of the nation as a whole.)
Right.
What’s more likely? A multi-national, multi-tiered conspiracy for a sport that is compared to others not that big to begin with internationally, in order to keep Russian skating down, which would go against ISU financial interests by the way, or that the issue is and has always been of Russia’s own making? Take all the time you need with that one.
If you think a team gold or world championship medal in one sport is worth all the effort and money needed to pull that kind of conspiracy off, because you can bet everyone involved would have to be paid off and paid off well.. you’re seriously overestimating the pull of figure skating outside of our fan bubble.
“There is no doping in Russian figure skating” A really good one, Tatiana. A joke of the year! And also – your government is doing EVERYTHING, so you do not participate in next Olympics either. It’s not US or your hated West or Ukraine. It’s your own doing. Deal with it.