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The former doctor Tutberidze denied responsibility in the Valieva case. What happened?

Date: March 28, 2024 Time: 19:46:21

The case of Kamila Valieva, accused of doping, is becoming more complicated every day, as the number of participants in it is gradually increasing. Until recently, the main focus was on the figure skater and her coach Eteri Tutberidze, and now Khrustalny’s former doctor Philip Shvetsky has loudly declared himself. It became known that the specialist filed a lawsuit against journalists who suspected that he was involved in Valieva’s doping case at the Beijing Olympics.

Shvetsky did not keep quiet and decided to protect his reputation, which had already been ruined once by another doping scandal involving him. Philip was guilty, but now what?

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The high-profile case of Kamila Valieva seriously affected not only the skater herself, but also her inner circle. Colleagues of athletes in the Russian national team are still unable to receive gold medals for the team tournament, which were earned with hard work, and Eteri Tutberidze is forced to restore her reputation, which was overshadowed by officials and journalists. foreign. In the same position was the doctor, who until recently worked with the figure skater and her coaching staff.

Philip Shvetsky was inevitably accused of deliberately using doping to enhance his pupil’s sporting performance. However, the specialist did not remain silent and denied all the rumors, in order to later sue the unscrupulous representatives of the media. A lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and commercial reputation was filed against the publication “Angle of View” for the publication of February 10, 2022 with the headline “The doctor of the Tutberidze group will be under suspicion for the scandal of doping with Valieva.”

“I filed a lawsuit in court, because in this material they call me “Doctor Doping”, thus publicly accusing me of criminal activity in the absence of a judicial act that has entered into force. In the lawsuit, I ask to force the publication to refute the statements published by it, and also to collect compensation from the publication for one ruble, ”Shvetsky told TASS.

Philip Shvetsky

Photo: RIA Novosti

Shvetsky stopped working with Tutberidze after the scandal.

There was already one episode in Philip Shvetsky’s career when he was found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation. In 2007, six Russian rowers were disqualified due to the actions of a specialist who at the time was serving as a doctor for the Russian rowing team. He took the blame and confessed to illegally administering allowed drugs to athletes, intravenously. After a while, Shvetsky explained that situation.

“Around this story, full of tragedy, of course, there are a lot of gossip and secrets. But in reality, the leadership of the federation, the Ministry of Sports and VNIIFK fought for the fate of athletes for a year. Unfortunately, the only possible way out was to put all the blame on the national team doctor, with a subsequent reduction in the disqualification period for athletes from four to two years, ”Philip told Sport Express. The specialist was disqualified, but in 2010 the Russian Rowing Federation reduced the period of his suspension. Later, the doctor changed his discipline and worked with skaters legally. However, after the scandal at the Beijing Olympics, Shvetsky again suffered losses and stopped working with Khrustalny.

As Shvetsky was first noticed with Valieva:

In Finland, Valieva was accompanied by a certain man. This is a doctor involved in a doping scandal.

“Yes, now I do not work on the ice, where Eteri Georgievna’s group is training, our work was designed for the period of preparation for the Olympics. But I want to emphasize that I was and still am a doctor of the Russian national team, a doctor of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency. And I consider it my duty to work in the interests of Russian sports and Russian athletes; this is my professional duty,” she said.

“Grandfather’s juice” or anti-Russian sabotage?

Apparently, it is too early to blame Shvetsky for what happened – Philip did the right thing and decided to defend his professional honor. However, the question of who is responsible for Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test remains open. The answer worries not only fans of the figure skater, but also sports officials, both Russian and foreign.

So far, there are three most popular versions, if the item with the “suspicious doctor Tutberidze” is excluded from the list:

1) Doping entered Valieva’s body from someone from her inner circle who could take a complex that included trimetazidine. It was this version that the figure skating team presented at the CAS during the Olympic Games. It is more likely that the family member who unknowingly framed Camila was her grandfather, who is taking heart medication that contains a banned substance.

2) Representatives of the anti-doping services committed criminal negligence by mixing or damaging test tubes with analysis. This version also has a right to exist, because there are chronological gaps in the work of specialists.

kamila valeva

Photo: Alexander Safonov, “Championship”

3) The main rivals of our team planned an anti-Russian sabotage. True, there is absolutely no evidence base in this version, only the fact that the doping scandal with Valieva is very beneficial, for example, for the American team, which is now claiming gold from the leader of the Olympic team. By the way, Philip Shvetsky also spoke about sabotage:

“Hypothetically, sabotage is possible. In connection with covid, the athletes were in quarantine for a long time, in a specially organized “bubble”, both on the training ground, and in training, and at competitions. Someone from the outside could not penetrate “behind the scenes.” And to carry out sabotage, add or mix something really only in the locker room, bathroom, there is no video surveillance there.

Such a “bubble” was not only during the Russian championship in St. Petersburg. Only one doping test from this competition turned out to be positive. I emphasize that I am not affirming anything, I am only trying to analyze ”, noted the specialist.

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The doctor described his fabrications to the Federal Drug Trafficking Service and even wrote a letter to the Investigative Committee, hoping for a fair investigation into Valieva’s case. Taking into account the fact that it is still ongoing, and Shvetsky has not suffered any punishment, the assumption of the “Angle of View” publication turned out to be unfounded. It only remains to wait for the true cause of what is happening to be revealed, and to hope that the consequences for Camila and her team are minimal.

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