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Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach stated Friday he was disturbed to see the “coldness” of Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva’s coaches towards her following the athlete’s fourth-place end in the course of the girls’s free skate.
Valieva slipped a number of occasions throughout her routine. The 15-year-old skater was clearly emotional as she completed up her routine. Her coach Eteri Tutberidze made it clear she wasn’t proud of the efficiency because the competitor got here off the ice.
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Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after competing within the girls’s free skate program in the course of the determine skating competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing.
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“Why did you let it go?” she was heard asking in Russian, through The New York Instances. “Why did you cease combating? Clarify it to me. Why? You let it go after that axel. Why?”
Bach remarked on the strain and harsh critiques lobbed at Valieva.
“Once I afterwards noticed how she was obtained by her closest entourage, with such, what gave the impression to be an amazing coldness, it was chilling to see this,” Bach stated. “Quite than giving her consolation, reasonably than to attempt to assist her, you possibly can really feel this chilling ambiance, this distance.”
President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, left, arrives for the lads’s downhill on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing.
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The falls have been uncharacteristic of Valieva who had been dominant within the occasions main as much as the ladies’s free skate. She was emotional within the rapid aftermath of her spherical, showing to come back to grips with the truth that she was not making the rostrum.
There was a medals ceremony since Valieva, who’s within the highlight over a failed drug check earlier than the beginning of the Beijing Video games, failed to complete within the prime three.
Kamila Valieva of Staff ROC talks to teach Eteri Tutberidze in the course of the Ladies Single Free Skating on day 13 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on Feb. 17, 2022 in Beijing, China.
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Valieva’s failed drug check from December, which was solely revealed earlier this month, nonetheless hangs over her head. The total investigation might take months and will value the Russian Olympic Committee a gold medal within the crew occasion.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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