Beijing, Feb 16, Anatoly Samokhvalov.2022 Olympic champion in team figure skating Kamila Valieva is facing pressure she has never felt before, but she showed great skating in the short program at the Beijing Games, US CBS journalist Steve Futterman said. On Tuesday, Valieva won the short program at the Olympic Games in Beijing. The International Doping Testing Agency (ITA) on Friday reported that Valieva's doping test dated December 25, 2021 tested positive for trimetazidine. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), despite the appeals of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Skating Union (ISU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), allowed the Russian woman to the personal tournament of the Games in Beijing. However, the IOC stated that if Valieva gets on the podium, the award ceremony will not be held, and the results of the tournament themselves will be preliminary. «We can only guess what really happened. But in reality, she was under such pressure that she had never experienced before. And she is only 15 years old! I did not see Kamila Valieva in reality until the Olympics in Beijing. I was told that watching her live is a completely different level of pleasure. And even now, with the failure at the very beginning of the program, she was magnificent » , — said Futterman. The reporter admitted that Valieva's performance reminded him of the performance of the 2006 Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen. «Sasha also fell twice at the beginning of the program at the Turin Games and still managed to win silver. I think it was one of the greatest performances in history. When Camila skated, I thought about this moment. Despite all the pressure, she did it. I was delighted with what he saw,” he added. “Who can beat Kamila Valieva at all? If she just performs in her own strength, I don’t see an athlete capable of defeating her. She performs great, despite all the circumstances,” — concluded the American.
