[parmnion]

Shes probably never had a childhood, so her age dont matter in regards to the drugs.

[arista]

Kamila Valieva: Olympics boss attacks Russian
skater's team for failing to comfort her after she fell on the ice


https://news.sky.com/story/kamila-va...e-ice-12544866


She fell on the Ice
and her team ignored her.

[MTVN]

This is really disturbing from the BBC article, the level of abuse in this sport must be unreal

Tutberidze has overseen something of a production line in successful young Russian skaters in recent years at the Sambo-70 club in Moscow - including new Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova and silver medallist Alexandra Trusova, who are both 17.

Before them, there was 2018 champion Alina Zagitova, who was 15 when she won gold and 2018 silver medallist Evgenia Medvedeva, who was 18. Meanwhile, Yulia Lipnitskaya, was 15 when she won team gold at Sochi 2014.

They have either all retired while still teenagers or gone on a break from the sport with no return imminent.

And from the way Trusova was speaking on Thursday after her silver medal, she may soon be another name to add to the list of early retirements.

"I hate this sport, I hate this sport, I hate all of it. I won't go to the medal ceremony... I don't want to go," she was overheard saying angrily before later composing herself at a news conference and adding: "Of course these were only emotions and I'll think it over and later on I'll take a decision what I'm going to do in the future."

[glib]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This is really disturbing from the BBC article, the level of abuse in this sport must be unreal

What’s new? Figure skaters in Russia have always been abused, it is not ‘the sport’ in general, thank you.

They’re poached from a young age, trained even when they’re on the verge of collapse. That’s just the mentality in Russia. The coach doesn’t care if they don’t feel well

They are given grants by Putin to allow them to quit jobs/education and focus full time on the sport. They really could not care less about the toll on the skater’s health, only that they beat the US.

Meanwhile everybody else in the Top 10 has to have a full time job just to pay the costly coaches. Except Torvill & Dean, reluctantly given a grant in 1980 to quit their jobs by Nottingham City Council. Coincidence this was where their results began improving ?