Young Russian figure skaters & doping & their notorious coach Eteri Tutberidze ...
I’m reposting this from another thread, as I think it’s important information.
The coach is notorious for abusing/doping and then discarding rising young stars. They have no career when Eteri Tutberidze is done with them — a string of medals, yes. But also permanent injuries. They are children, when they begin training with this coach, and as such have little or no say about whatever “vitamins and supplements” are given to them. Then they hit “the Eteri expiration date.”
It’s a shocking article.
Russian athletes came into this Olympics already on thin ice, forced to compete under a neutral flag as a punishment for the state-sponsored doping coverup of the 2014 Olympics and subsequent persistent doping violations. The Russian doctor who accompanied the team to Beijing, Philip Shvetsky, was previously banned for doping violations by his own federation from 2007 to 2010.
The controversy has also fed long-standing concerns about Tutberidze, Valieva's coach, whose training methods have been widely criticized for leaving her very young skaters injured and with shortened careers.
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For years, members of the skating community have lamented what's known as the "Eteri expiration date" — when, at around age 17, injury or diminishing results bring the careers of Tutberidze's athletes to an abrupt end. Competitors have long voiced concerns that Tutberidze treats her athletes as "disposable."
"Eteri was smart in her approach: she was first to find a method to teach quad jumps to girls, and the method works, but only until age 17," Benoit Richaud, the leading choreographer among quad-less competitors, told Insider. "What are skaters supposed to do then?"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/winter-olympics/could-doping-spell-the-end-for-russian-skating-prodigy-kamila-valieva/ar-AATFGzN?ocid=entnewsntp
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