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Adam Rippon: Valieva competing at Winter Olympics is 'slap in the face' – video
Adam Rippon, the former Olympic bronze medallist and skating coach, has launched a scathing attack on the decision to allow 15-year-old Kamila Valieva to compete at the Beijing Winter Games after she tested positive for a banned substance.
'It's a complete slap in the face to every single athlete who comes here to compete clean,' Rippon said, before expressing sympathy with Valieva and anger towards the Russian Olympic Committee. 'The people around her completely failed her,' added Rippon, who is coaching US skater Mariah Bell at the 2022 Games.
Rippon's comments came after news emerged that Valieva listed two legal substances – L-carnitine and Hypoxen, both used to improve heart function – on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her doping case came to light. The Russian skater tested positive for a banned substance, trimetazidine, in December.
Valieva has not spoken publicly about the controversy but her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, has denied the doping allegations. 'I want to say that I am absolutely sure that Kamila is innocent and clean,' Tutberiz
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