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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question for those with more medical/figure skating expertise than me...why did the Russian figure skater even need to dope? She seems on a completely different level than the other skaters, plus the illegal medicine seems mild (compared to others on the list). Does it make that much of a difference?[/quote]

There’s no way of knowing how she would be performing if she were clean. Maybe without the help of the heart meds, she would’ve burned out in practice months ago when the world wasn’t watching. That coach has figured out a highly successful system to train little girls and is figuring out just how to push the limits of what an 15-17 year old is capable of before their bodies mature into women.

I’d love to see what they were capable of of they were all clean, but I highly doubt any of her athletes are now.[/quote]

Actually, most of these girls are burning out from injuries at a young age, probably because they are excessively training and doing all these quads.  If the ability to train harder/longer is helped by doping, it’s really a double edged sword because the rest of their body can’t handle it.

As I sort of suspected would happen, the situation got to Valieva.  [b]Finished off the podium, which is probably for the best.[/quote][/b]

She was forced to botch her performance![/quote]

I'm not sure. All her entourage had to do was subtly withdraw their emotional support from Valieva (they are good at that as you can see from looking at past skaters that have performed poorly.) Leaving her alone to feel the brunt of the pressure (not cutting off her social media access for example) and letting her see the effect it's has on her family, and then as will happen with 15 yo's, the pressure takes them down. They have a successor waiting in the wings.

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