Ignatov: I can't imagine how hard it was for Valieva at the Olympics

MOSCOW, April 19, Andrey Simonenko. Silver medalist of the Russian Championship 2021 in In men's singles skating, Makar Ignatov admitted in an interview that he had no idea what it was like for the winner of the Beijing Olympics in the team tournament, the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, to go on the ice in individual competitions. year, a small amount of a banned substance, trimetazidine, was detected. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) allowed the skater to participate in the individual tournament, where she was in the lead after the short program, but then she broke the free skate and took fourth place. that she did even that. Psychologically, it was very difficult for her,» Ignatov said. Read the full interview with Makar Ignatov on the website rsport.ria.ru.