Vagabond
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According to the decision, Eugenia Tarasova rode in the train compartment with Valieva from Moscow to St. Petersburg, gave evidence, and never mentioned the strawberry dessert. To me, this suggests that Valieva made up the story on her own.Given the context I doubt if much of any part of it came from her. I'm sure she was told exactly what to say and thoroughly rehearsed and threatened if she went off script.
russia is, unfortunately, that kind of place and russian sports federations have a long history of using and throwing away people at the bottom and even potential gold medalists are at the bottom of the hierarchy.
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