Tarasova responded to WADA’s excuses regarding Valieva: “There is nothing to hide. Russian means damned”

Honored Trainer of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova responded to the statement of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Earlier, the German television channel ARD reported that in January 2021, 23 swimmers from China passed positive doping tests for trimetazidine, but despite this they were allowed to participate in the Tokyo Olympics. In response, WADA chief legal counsel Ross Wenzel said that the Chinese athletes were not punished because WADA was unable to refute the Chinese Anti-Doping Agency’s verdict that the athletes had inadvertently ingested a banned substance. He also explained why figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified for 4 years for taking a similar drug. According to Wenzel, a much larger amount of trimetazidine was found in the Russian woman’s sample, and she did not provide any evidence to support her version of the unintentional entry of a prohibited substance into her body.

“There’s nothing to hide here. Here the attitude towards the country, towards the Russian girl, almost towards the child. Russian means damned. That’s what it means now. I hate them,” TASS quotes Tarasova as saying.

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