“I came from training and saw Kamila running around the stadium. Red like a tomato! The 8-year-old run 12 km, which for her age seemed unrealistic.” Interview with Valieva’s first coach Igor Lyutikov
Interview with Igor Lyutikov, the first coach of Kamila Valieva. In an interview with Match TV, Lyutikov spoke about [...]
Irina Slutskaya: “Fair or not, such is the technique now. While the judges pretend that everyone doesn’t see prerotations and this is not a mistake, why not?”
Interview with Irina Slutskaya. About the performance of the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics, the judging scandal [...]
Ilia Averbukh: “Kamila Valieva has everything to show in four years that she is worthy of the Olympic champion title.”
Interview with Ilia Averbukh about Kamila Valieva and Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov. photo by [...]
Alexander Zhulin: “Valieva has learned two magnificent quadruple jumps and triple axel. What dope are you talking about? She just doesn’t get out of the ice and withstands wild loads.”
Alexander Zhulin about Eteri Tutberidze, Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova. View this post on Instagram [...]
Morisi Kvitelashvili: “I had such mixed feelings after women’s FP that I cried. Tutberidze asked me “Why are you crying? Sad about your 10th place?” Even then she didn’t stop joking, holding on.”
Morisi Kvitelashvili summed up the results of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, spoke about the strength of his coach [...]
“I haven’t seen such cynicism for a long time. Eteri Tutberidze, as a reasonable person, did everything absolutely right.” Alexander Zhulin on his appeal to Thomas Bach
Alexander Zhulin commented on his appeal to the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach after [...]
Tamara Moskvina: “If Valieva is strong, she will cope with the difficulties. And if she is not strong – “c’est la vie”. It’s always like this in sports.”
Tamara Moskvina shared her opinion about raising the age minimum and situation around Kamila Valieva. photo Daria [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “Today, a 15-year-old figure skater legally performing in senior competitions doesn’t bear any responsibility even in case of violation of existing rules. There’s no logic.”
Interview with Rafael Arutyunyan about Nathan Chen, future work and the scandal surrounding Kamila Valieva. photo [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “If Trusova wants to win gold at the Olympics, she must learn to listen to the coach.”
Interview with Evgeni Plushenko about the Olympics 2022. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
“Kamila Valieva is Olympic champion in team event, our star. The test that fell on her, our entire team needs to go through together.” Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics
Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. View this post on Instagram [...]
“The same structures that, breaking the rules and the laws, did everything to crush Valieva morally, now try to blame the Tutberidze team for everything” The head of FFRK Gorshkov about Bach’s statement
Figure skating coach Alexander Gorshkov, Alexander Zhulin and Renat Laishev commented on the words of the head of the [...]
“Everyone who brought this girl to such a state must be found and judged. And better – whip them publicly on Red Square. Scum.” Russian specialists about Kamila Valieva
Russian coaches and specialists about Kamila Valieva's performance in the individual competitions at the Olympics. [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “Judges were incredibly generous to Valieva. She made a serious mistake, but got fabulous scores. Honestly, I’m surprised.”
Two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko summed up the results of women's short program at the Olympics. [...]
“Imagine what a safety margin Valieva has, even with a mistake on the triple axel, she became the first – it’s amazing.” Russian specialist about women’s short program at the Olympics
Russian coaches and specialists about performance of Russian girls in the short program at the Olympic Games in [...]
President of FFKR Gorshkov refused to comment and call the foreign journalists “jackals”. Also FFKR comments about Kamila Valieva missing the press-conference
President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR) Alexander Gorshkov did not comment after the performance of [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “Trusova is incredibly talented girl. But instead of chasing records, she needs to focus on what she can do best.”
Evgeni Plushenko in his author's column speaks about Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova. [...]
Kamila Valieva: “These days were very difficult for me. Tears of happiness, probably, and a little distress.”
Kamila Valieva spoke about the doping scandal at the Olympics for the first time. View this post on [...]
“Finally justice has prevailed! You can feed tons of this drug to competitors from other countries, but they will not jump quads.” Russian specialists on the decision of CAS to allow Kamila Valieva to compete at the Olympics
Russian coaches and specialists commented on the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to allow the [...]
Eteri Tutberidze: “It’s such a pity that this whole situation came to light here, at the Olympics, as I understand it, in order to get more resonance, but we can handle it.”
Eteri Tutberidze spoke about the situation of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who in December got a positive [...]
“Valieva is a diamond, phenomenon in figure skating. She’s much better than WADA and all the rest put together.” Russian coaches and specialists about situation with Kamila Valieva
While the CAS field session is going on, Russian coaches and specialists about situation with Kamila Valieva. [...]
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov: “We missed Papadakis – Cizeron, it’s a pleasure to watch them.”
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov about rhythm dance at the Beijing Olympics, scores in the team event, back [...]
“We have not abandoned the athlete in any case, we are with our athletes in trouble and in joy to the end.”, Eteri Tutberidze to Russian media
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eteri Tutberidze (@tutberidze.eteri) source [...]
“Eteri Georgievna teaches us to do all the work properly. Only perfection she considers an acceptable quality – nothing else” interview with Anna Shcherbakova and Kamila Valieva
Anna Shcherbakova and Kamila Valieva in an interview for Vogue Russia. photo Alexei Dunyaev vogue.ru source: [...]
RUSADA initiated an investigation against Valieva’s staff after a positive doping test for a figure skater
photo RIA Novosti source Sports.ru The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has initiated an investigation [...]