Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended Camila Balieva over the doping scandal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Russian President Putin welcomed the medalists of the Russian Olympic Committee for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on the 26th (local time) and encouraged the athletes.
He said to Balieva at this event, “It has raised sports to the realm of art,” and said, “Such perfection cannot be achieved by manipulation.”
Baliyeva was mentioned as a potential gold medal candidate at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but after a figure skating team event, it was revealed that trimetazidine, a banned drug, was found in a urine sample submitted at the Russian Championships on December 25 last year, causing controversy.
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