IOC official: I'm sorry the result came back positive, your skater is disqualified
. They really don't understand that deflecting and whataboutisms just make them look even more guilty
Basically, CAS warped the meaning of the language of the "protected person" provision in its initial decision to allow Valieva to compete, which WADA never intended to be used that way.
This is extra dumb because neither Kostner or Calalang actually doped. Kostner was punished for covering for her boyfriend's doping (still not great, but not her) and Jessica Calalang had a false positive.Now, they're trying to deflect by pointing to Carolina Kostner and Jessica Calalann. Um, guess what? Both have served their penalties. Valieva and perhaps more. importantly, Tutberidze haven't
Slight correction: Calalang tested positive for a metabolite of a banned substance. It's just that in her case the metabolite was the result of innocuous substance in her make-up, and not a banned performance enhancing substance. As a result of her case, and a few others, the allowable limit of the metabolite was raised so as not to result in sanctions against athletes who have done nothing wrong. Her test result was not a false positive.
It's like when they whine about Simone Biles. They're not even good at deflecting. If you're going to try to deflect, use cases that are actually similar.
Well everyone knows she takes substances that are banned but has TUE. So many of the very top American athletes have TUE it’s very clearly back door doping
bUt UsA is such a weak retort.
This. Showing any kind of good will to bad faith actors (russian federation) never ends well.... russia can have their own little skating universe and stay out of the rest of the world's.
Since they always say how much better they are and that they don't need to rest of the world, they should know stay in their own bubble.
Ridiculous.
"It's been eighty-four years!""2000 years later"
Sorry
Oh FFS! Enough already.
They extended their Winter-New Years holidays.
In Futurama's version, history tells us that Eteri was actually a Transformer robot out to crush the skating world.
SHOCKER.And today's award for Shameless Gaslighting goes to Katsalapov.
Is "well deserved medals" a euphemism in Russian for "lumps of coal"?
I want all the teams to get their well-deserved medals too. IMO, the Russian Olympic Committee athletes deserve a special honorary platinum medal for the team competition given by the Russian Sports Ministry at home and nothing less than that. They're better than mere Olympic medals, so the other teams should get those instead.And today's award for Shameless Gaslighting goes to Katsalapov.
Nikita Katsalapov: “We want a fair decision as soon as possible. And for all our team to receive the well-deserved Olympic medals.”
Translation of Nikita Katsalapov's and Victoria Sinitsina's comments about not getting medals from 2022 Olympic team event.fs-gossips.com
I'd suggest making those medals out of trimetazidine instead of platinum, but yeah....
