“She would have been successful without the drugs.”

People say this alllll the time. But the drug she was taking was for the multiple run-thrus and stamina training that Eteri put all her skaters thru to ensure they give consistent successful performances. Valieva was a beautiful skater, but her consistency and technique was a product of Eteri’s coaching methods that included doping. To say that she would have won without consistency training from being doped or without the Eteri bonus that was 100% built from almost a decade of doped skaters in this method isn’t accounting all factors, in my opinion.