MOSCOW, Mar 21, Andrey Simonenko. Champion and three-time winner of the world championships in in the 110-meter hurdles, Sergey Shubenkov said that the case of a positive doping test by Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva reminded him of his own case. During the Beijing Olympics, it became known that a small amount of the content of the prohibited substance — trimetazidine. The Court of Arbitration for Sport allowed the skater to participate in the individual tournament, where she was in the lead after the short program, but in the end she took fourth place. The awards ceremony for the team competition, in which Valieva won gold as part of the Russian team, will not be held until the investigation of her case is completed. A low concentration of the diuretic acetazolamide was found in a sample taken from Shubenkov on December 15, 2020. The investigation determined that this was the result of his inadvertent ingestion of leftover medication used to treat a family member. Suspicions of violating anti-doping rules from the athlete were removed. “Really, a similar case,” Shubenkov said in an interview. “Some kind of left-handed “sticky”, only at a very important and crucial moment. you have to prove that you are not a camel. It's a pity that the girl was broken. But the miracle did not happen. If she had come to a personal medal in such a situation, it would have been a miracle. Maybe I'm cynical, but I think that, alas, miracles can be , and they happen, but, as a rule, they don’t happen.” Read the full interview with Sergei Shubenkov on Monday at rsport.ria.ru.
