KAMILA VALIEVA’s coach ETERI criticized her after FALLING at the Olympics | KAMILA VALIEVA FALLS

Kamila Valieva suffered huge disappointment in the ladies' singles free skate on Thursday as she slipped from first place to fourth after an error-strewn routine. Television cameras picked up on the first words of her coach Eteri Tutberidze, as she greeted Valieva as she came off the ice.

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[danielmaynes]

Their treatment of her infuriates me. That poor girl just needs to be given tenderness and comfort. I hope she gets a new coach and team and is able to come back and show the world how brilliant she is. And if she wishes not to, then I hope she finds a place that loves her for her.

[david]

This is a minor. Let me say that again. This is a minor. Tennis introduced measures years ago to protect minors from exactly this kind of thing. Why does the IOC allow this?

[imagine]

I may be in the minority here but I don't really see how this coach was "criticizing" Kamila. She wasn't lambasting her or insulting her or even ignoring her. She had her arm around Kamila and was asking why she didn't keep fighting. Keep in mind that we're outsiders both to this coach-pupil relationship and to the Russian culture. What may seem "harsh" to us may not really be so. I think the media just wants to create a villain here when there doesn't have to be one. Now, of course, the bigger issue is the doping issue. Why does Russia keep getting caught like this? That's the bigger scandal.

[dailealexander]

This poor girl... my heart truly breaks to see a child, ANY child, treated this way by anyone. Valieva was clearly already devastated and distraught beyond words after her free skate last night -- so what did that vile coach think she was going to accomplish by pouring salt in that girl's wounds? Why the hell would ANYONE do that?! Seriously, what made her coach think that was at all appropriate?!! Truly sickening behavior...

[jagdpanther]

Her coach was encouraging her to fight, this is very common in Russian culture and I don't see she has done anything wrong!

[antoniomaysonet-cruz]

1st of all, after the doping revelation, she shouldn't have been in competition. 2nd, she's a 15 year old with so much pressure there should be a rule that minors shouldn't compete in the Olympics for this reason. The weight of your country should never rest on a minor

[ipaales]

Shame on the Olympics shame on her parents and shame on anyone involved, They know what goes on you ask Torvill and Dean they know the pain and mental stress it puts on kids and for what ...working hard to achieve goals is one thing but everyone involved in this sport knows it destroyes kids mentally and physically they just turn a blind eye ...shame on the sport for letting this happen and watching it

[edwardhg]

Watched the Eteri-Kamila video segment twice. I think the criticism towards Eteri is overblown.
Also, when the whole world is against against your kid, you steel them up, not coddle them. Different parenting style.
And believe me, world class athletes train in sweat, tears, pain and blood.

[albaPhenom]

It was obviously them who gave this young girl the drugs, then treat her like this.

[morningsminion]

I keep hearing how mean the coach was, they keep seeing photos of the coach with her arm wrapped around the skater, obviously comforting her. Maybe, just maybe, she BOTH reprimanded her and comforted her. But the angle that the coach monstrously attacked an innocent teen skater makes a better news story.

[crumpet]

The reason the ROC are currently allowed to compete is because when the mass doping programme Russia was using was found out, they said younger skaters coming in would not be doing the same thing. But here we are, only a few years on, and there's a child being doped for the sake of an Olympic medal. Russia needs a lengthy ban, the athletes should be able to compete for different countries that don't condone drugging and will manage them properly, but the Kamila Valieva case isn't one for the Olympics to be dealing with, but Social Services. Her coach needs to be taken off her, I do think she should have been banned from medalling at these games anyway.

[LeechyKun]

Wasn't the Olympics suppose to bring people together? Lol... Everyone crying, complaining, and failures. Talk about a sorrowful Olympics. Guess it goes with the territory.

[Shadow-In-The-East]

The committees with the authority to ban her or allow her to continue don't base their decisions on how emotionally upsetting it is to the accused. It's a damn shame about the position that Russia has placed this literal CHILD in, because she is very obviously extremely talented and likely has significant untapped potential. I doubt she actively sought out performance enhancing drugs, and it's altogether possible, some would even say probable, that her coaches administered them to her without her knowledge or consent.

In an appeal to the first ruling, CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) overruled the IOC's initial decision to ban her outright, green lighting her to continue competing. This decision was apparently due to the "exceptional circumstances of her being a minor, " and presumably justified by the contention that due to her young age, she can't have possessed sufficient psychological capacity to appreciate the true magnitude and severity of such a transgression nor the scope of it's consequences or implications.

While I've known many precocious 15 year old's that would seem to contradict such a sentiment, I nevertheless sympathize with Valieva, I really do. But she should never have been allowed to continue in this competition, regardless of whether she earned a gold medal, the lowest score possible or anything in between. It's not remotely fair to the other players, and setting precedents like this isn't in the spirit of the Olympic games and what they are meant to represent. Just because she may be considered "protected" due to her age, the adults responsible for doping her sure as hell aren't. Allowing her to compete is simply wrong on practically every level; legally, morally, ethically, emotionally, pragmatically, etc.

[tiquedilla]

All I've seen in this horrible Olympics is failure & crying. Why was it SO important to have this Ill-advised tasteless Olympics in a pandemic away.

[richarddepalantino]

Why is everyone so upset after her coach simply asked her questions?

[annieoops]

Eh asking her why she didn't keep fighting is not that harsh. This is being blown way out of proportion. I thought the commentators were horrible to her myself.

[cccbb]

Thats how people get treated in an authoritarian state

[corriepitt]

She was supposed to take a dive, but to finish acceptably to make it look legit. Too much to ask a bullied kid on a world stage.

[stinabo]

Imagine what the coach would've actually said without the videos and people there ... Hurray Russian coaches. Why do they allow such young kids in the Olympics anyway.

[kimburnersackmann]

Anyone have a link to her short free skate? Without commentary please.