No Games in Moscow - Ep.1 Behind the Doping of Kamila Valieva

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  • čas přidán 21. 04. 2024
  • The 2022 Beijing Olympics will likely go down in history as figure skating’s darkest moment. The surreal turn of events - from Kamila Valieva’s positive test to her error-strewn performance on ice to the subsequent traumatic responses displayed by her teammates - proved catastrophic for Russian figure skating, which had dominated the sport for over a decade before its grand implosion on the global stage. In Kin’s new documentary essay series, No Games in Moscow, we investigate the methods and philosophies of Russia’s premier figure skating school, Sambo 70, the experiments and scientific research around its athletes, and its relationship to the Putin regime.
    No Games in Moscow is a three-episode installment documentary essay series. You can subscribe to the mailing list linked here to be notified when the next episode is released.
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    Ep 1. A Club Meant for Wrestlers (an introduction to women’s figure skating in Russia & Sambo 70)
    Ep 2. A Little Xenon Gas as a Treat (an investigation into the scientists behind Russian sports and their interesting methods)
    Ep 3. A Spokesperson for the Sacrificial Lambs (an analysis of the Valieva trial’s verdict and moral implications)
    Instagram: @Kins.social
    Website: kins.productions/
    #Kamilavalieva #sashatrusova #AnnaShcherbakova #eteritutberidze #eteri #sambo70 #figureskating #olympics #beijing2022 #doping #dariausacheva #alionakostornaia #putin
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  • @juliadizhak8397
    @juliadizhak8397 Před měsícem +94

    the most ridiculous in this story that valieva was punished but eteri didn’t.
    But she should be punished for the whole her life and don’t work with kids.
    Instead she continues to work with kids not only in russia but in the world

    • @user-cy7dj2lu7e
      @user-cy7dj2lu7e Před měsícem +1

      Probably, it's a matter of time. I mean there is a feeling that she will never be allowed to win anything at internationals competitions in future.

    • @juliadizhak8397
      @juliadizhak8397 Před měsícem +4

      @@user-cy7dj2lu7ebut she was on championship, she is a coach of her dotter which now “represents” Georgia. Actually, the question how she is so quickly changed a country. Because no one else can do it, except her dotter and her partner. Only for next year.
      As well they have a proxy russian team which “represents “ other countries but in fact the skaters train in sambo 70.
      And figure skating federation dont want to stop it.

    • @kerryperryman3025
      @kerryperryman3025 Před 10 dny

      She should have at least received a ban as long as Kamila.

    • @jjsmith4829
      @jjsmith4829 Před 8 dny

      blame the useless isu which tolerates such awful behaviour and actions

  • @prisonisinourminds8070
    @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +122

    The thing that makes the most mad is the fact that everyone including the west and the ISU just threw Kamila under the bus and didn’t even bother doing anything else. Im sure they will just let Eteri and the creepy doctor back into the next Olympics like nothing ever happened

  • @ann-rr7ih
    @ann-rr7ih Před 26 dny +30

    I’m russian and i really love our figure skaters but it doesn’t mean i can’t see the whole nightmare of this industry. These girls should live normal lives, the should be physically grown and healthy. I am really happy that the age has been changed for the Olympics. That’s so exciting to see grown girls skating - i really love japanese figure skating, i like our russian girl Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - she’s grown and really beautiful woman with phenomenal artistic skills and her jumps are beautiful too. I like Hendrix too btw. So please don’t you think that my country is the Hell, it is sad to see comments inspired by politics under this video

    • @Fyestyfem-dr3qh
      @Fyestyfem-dr3qh Před 12 dny +3

      American here and we love Tuktamysheva!

    • @QuirkyGirl10
      @QuirkyGirl10 Před 11 dny +2

      American here too, and despite the doping, I have enjoyed watching the Russian girls skate, even Kamila, so this whole story of doping and abuse really saddens me. Like you, I am happy they raised the age of Olympic eligibility.

    • @kittensrus168
      @kittensrus168 Před 10 dny +2

      Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

  • @strawberrylime33
    @strawberrylime33 Před měsícem +144

    I find it interesting that there are eteri fans who refuse to acknowledge the truth about the toxic culture and malnourishment. It's not even worth it to fight in the comments anymore. Russia feels like it is as isolated as north korea in its thinking patterns.

  • @Yurito12
    @Yurito12 Před měsícem +74

    This is a very complicated topic and very big, id like to say that these girls have incredibly low body fat, they weight 92-100 pounds at a height of 4'11'-5'3' then they grow and age when they hit 16+ and grow 2 more inches and gain over 10-30lb in weight. This reason is a major reason why they struggle to jump consistently after turning adults cause of the quick and big change to their bodies.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +9

      Plus they develop unnaturally. We had a guy in my class in Moscow who was a figure skater and despite his sister who was just 1 year older he looked like a third grader in 5-6 grade . I remember he was always very short and even had short arms compared to his big head that looked his age. On TV u don’t even notice that stuff, now he looks quite normal though

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +10

      Like if you look at trusova in 2021 she looked about 12-13 years old when in reality she was almost 16.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem

      I’m sure extreme amounts of practice that alters your body growth is very unhealthy

    • @Yurito12
      @Yurito12 Před měsícem

      @prisonisinourminds8070 I think the strict diets malnourish them slightly and the constant drilling and pressure impacts the body, I heard about strict diets impacting hormones accusing young girls puberty to be pushed into their 13-15 and they grow later on, some girls even loss their periods the whole time while on such a low body fat percentage

    • @Yurito12
      @Yurito12 Před měsícem +6

      @prisonisinourminds8070 If you look at Kamilia and Sasha now they look wayy taller and not lean anymore but they matured alot in a short time now that they stopped skating competitively for about a year now, it's like a growth spurt in their last teens suddenly hits

  • @Ana-jr2rl
    @Ana-jr2rl Před měsícem +38

    i've followed figure skating for many years and i gotta say your research for this is top notch, i don't think i've ever seen an "outsider" get everything so right

    • @roddo1955
      @roddo1955 Před 5 dny +1

      Confirmation bias. That's like me joining a group of star wars nerds and thinking: Finally, someone gets it right!..
      most people watching this are already invested and interested in figureskating. 'Outsiders' aren't going to watch this.

  • @D1ona1
    @D1ona1 Před měsícem +62

    It's really painful to watch these young people being used and abused for a sport. This isn't just a Russian thing. We as a society need to stop using children for our entertainment/glory, it's very sad.
    This is absolutely wild, I’m so interested, can’t wait to see the rest.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +4

      In this particular occurrence pointing that it is a Russian thing is extremely important. This whole 2022 story is only and only political. The second I heard that she was caught with doping I knew there was only one person behind it. PUTIN

    • @juliadizhak8397
      @juliadizhak8397 Před měsícem +2

      It is in China as well, but they learned from russia

    • @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880
      @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880 Před měsícem +2

      Unfortunately, some parents live vicariously through their children, because they couldn't achieve or failed their own dreams of being an athlete or artist for many reasons and no amount of reasoning is going to change their minds in any way.

    • @roddo1955
      @roddo1955 Před 5 dny

      In this case,; this is definitely a Russian thing.

  • @switch4342
    @switch4342 Před měsícem +35

    this video was seriously great, it's amazing how much effort you put into it and how concisely and interestingly everything is explained! the only little note i have is the clip of anna shcherbakova at 16:11 (her lying on the operating table) which is kind of framed in a negative light, with the red text and the use of "..." but it rly wasn't anything serious! the video is from a vlog she jokingly took while the surgery was going on (a very minor one from an ankle injury she recently sustained) that she at first decided not to post but then did (as a joke) bc she was under the influence of anesthesia at the time and she thought what she said was funny bc she wasn't thinking clearly lmao. so the "magic drug" thing isn't meant to be taken seriously, she's just not fully in her right mind bc of the anesthesia. at other moments, she was commenting on how the doctors were "very cool people" and how ed sheeran's bad habits was playing in the operating room lmao.
    a more accurate translation of what she said is: "i'm lying in the OR. I had time to cry... a little. I was kinda worried. But everything's already fine... because the magic drug's beginning to work. i already don't feel it. they just sewed up my foot. i won't reveal all the details of what they did to me there."

    • @heyheyvicky1498
      @heyheyvicky1498 Před měsícem +3

      I understood "magic drug" as pain medication/for numbing the area that had to be treated... didn't seem like a reference to any doping stuff to me?

    • @switch4342
      @switch4342 Před měsícem +2

      @@heyheyvicky1498 i know, i js wanted to clear it up bc the video is framed in kind of an ominous/serious light, while actually it wasn't rly a serious surgery and it was meant to be js a funny video :)

    • @nerdcomplete7004
      @nerdcomplete7004 Před měsícem +6

      well, you're right but we don't know how serious her injury is. All we have is her words from that small vlog when she mentioned having a complete new ligament. Anna jumped consistently in shows for like a year and a half after winning the Olympics, even having 3-3 back in October and and it was in January when she started having troubles with things she used to do easily. Then she skipped like a month or two doing only masterclasses and no shows while wearing the fixator all this period of time so I would assume they hoped non-invasive treatment would help but it eventually didn't. Anna said multiple times that she was really worried and till today she can't walk without a crutch as the rehabilitation process goes on. So I would assume it's as serious as any "normal" injury for a competing athlete and not anything minor.

  • @nardaaguilar7508
    @nardaaguilar7508 Před měsícem +3

    So interesting!!! Waiting for episode 2

  • @zondwasonaba4136
    @zondwasonaba4136 Před měsícem +26

    The quality of this video 🧎🏾‍♀️🧎🏾‍♀️🧎🏾‍♀️ I stan

  • @edie1205
    @edie1205 Před 26 dny

    insane video ! thank you so much for explaining so well everything with very interisting critics. i don't skate nor follow competitive skating but always took an interest about what's going on behind the curtains so perfect video for me !

  • @frauleinunbekannt
    @frauleinunbekannt Před měsícem +1

    What a terrific video, thank you

  • @AstridLinkolnd
    @AstridLinkolnd Před 12 dny +2

    You should make a video about figure skater Miroslava Lebedeva and how she’s abused by her family and couches

  • @riley2247
    @riley2247 Před 24 dny +1

    PATHOLOGIC MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING!! Figure skating and pathologic r my two fave things this made me so happy

  • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628

    Sorry for the long comment...I have maintained and still maintain that Valieva was not doped. The circumstances of the testing are very shady. Also, TMZ is not a doping agent. No literature supports a PED effect. The heart primarily uses fat for energy. TMZ throttles that pathway in order to ramp up the use of glucose which is faster, but the person does not get a net increase in energy production. Also, at high exercise intensities, the heart shifts and instead of relying on glucose like the brain and skeletal muscle, it relies on lactate. You get nothing from trying to shunt more activity through the glucose pathway. There is simply no justification for TMZ being a PED. Also, before it was banned they looked at blood samples from a place where many world class athletes were training in Europe. TMZ was present in a ratio of 24 out of 10,000 - this was when it was legal. It's very cheap and out of your system quickly. If it worked, you would have seen it in far, far, far more samples than 24 out of 10,000. I think Valieva is innocent. Her tests at the Olympics were clean, to my knowledge, and TMZ had no effect on her (if we are to believe it was ever in her system), yet she was vilified by true scumbags like Johnny Weir, and she was broken at the Olympics. Treating a child like that is disgusting.
    For those that don't like figure skating and gymnastics for the young ages and small bodies - these are two sports where it pays to be young and small. Most sports are heavily biased against the young and small. A person who is at the top of the world by age 14 should not be denied that opportunity. Becoming an Olympian or even a World or Olympic Champ will set that person up for life. These opportunities for children should never be taken away. That is cruel and inhumane. Raising the age limit will only guarantee that parents and coaches use starvation, puberty blockers etc, to keep a child small for longer, and this practice will increase in prevalence as you increase the competition age. You must always keep in mind the incentives you create, not just the desires you have. Every time these stories emerge it's the same crowd with the same mantra, 'no children, raise the age' etc, and every single time it's the adults that let the children down. Where is the punishment for the adults? Why are the kids going to be punished for the sins of adults? It makes no sense.
    People need to realize that virtually every athlete at that level is looking for every possible advantage. There might be some sports where doping is rare, but most dope and the US is full of doping. But in the US we have a decentralized system with many designer drugs, specifically made to evade current testing protocols. In other nations, it is more centralized but the practice is still the same. Not sure what the tally is after the winter Olympics, but since the start of drug testing, the USSR and Russia combined have only one more Olympic medal taken away due to doping, than the US. When people throw stones at Russia, they need to realize they are living in a glass house. In 2008 they caught a major middle man transporting PEDs to sprinters. They asked him, "Of the sprinters in the final at the Olympics..." and he interrupted them and said, "They're all doped". That is the reality.
    Lastly, before the Olympics I questioned the wisdom of Eteri in putting Valieva in the team competition. I believe she could have put Trusova in the short program and Anna in the long program. That would have been a path to get each girl a gold medal (assuming I'm right about how she could allocate the skaters). She made bad decisions, IMO. Not only did it cost Valieva, it cost the entire Russian team a gold medal. I think Valieva is now an adult or close to it - she has probably been irreparably harmed / traumatized and it's a guarantee that it was adults that are responsible. Doping is not the biggest issue here - it's the treatment of children. We must do better in how children are treated.

    • @zarleeno_o7821
      @zarleeno_o7821 Před 24 dny +1

      Raising the age is necessary though. Aside from the obvious child abuse (that unfortunately will exist in any sport regardless of age limit) it would definitely help in making this sport more artistic again. Figure skating itself has become a sport where only quads and triples are appreciated. It is near impossible for 18+ girls to do multiples of quads in one go. Therefore they will put more effort into the artistry of it instead of just jumping around. Yuna kim and Carolina kostner are great examples of strong and artistic figure skaters who were 20 and 20+ respectively during the Olympics.

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 22 dny

      @@zarleeno_o7821 Raising the age is a terrible idea. You are, like so many others, justifying punishing children because of the sins of adults. And you admit that abuse will be there regardless of age - that is a very clear indicator that you don't go after age - you go after abuse.
      The sport is very artistic as it is. It's just added more athleticism.
      If you want to tilt things to artistry then you change the scoring.

    • @psycherevivedby
      @psycherevivedby Před 10 dny +1

      What is cruel is starving, physically damaging and emotional scarring little girls and teenage girls! No medal is worth the pain and suffering these girls are put through at the hands of adults. They live life long pain and mental anguish for what? How you can be for that is disgusting.
      “It pays to be young and small” No, it’s malnourished and underweight children with underdeveloped bodies giving the illusion of speed and height.
      INSTEAD of strength, actual speed and skill with proper technique as a fully grown, nourished adult athlete.
      With the right nourishment, necessary age restrictions and technique, women could easily achieve the same things. But, they aren’t getting the opportunity to due to this evil recycling of little girls.
      Your priorities are all wrong and your mindset is disgusting.

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 9 dny

      @@psycherevivedby Your reading comprehension is pretty bad. So is your analysis.
      This sport is about physics and physics is about math - I don't care how old the athlete is, they will all be starving themselves to get as small as possible. The difference will be that older athletes will do it themselves while the younger ones will have a parent or coach bearing down on them constantly to impose the discipline. The result will be the same with regard to starvation, and for older skaters it might be worse. Weight loss drugs and other substances will be rampant and increase in use as you increase the age requirement.
      I'm not for abuse - if you could actually read and not just emote, you would see that. You're in that group that thinks age limits will magically fix things, and it won't do that at all.
      There is no "illusion" of speed and height. There's a reason the older skaters are not doing the same maneuvers. Again, it's about physics.
      The older skaters are not and will not ever do the same things that Valieva was doing at 15. Physics. Again, physics. You have a profound lack of awareness here. Tuktamisheva(sp?) is a great example. She is impeccable in her technique and has taken care of herself better than anyone - and where does she rank next to the younger girls? Several spots below. That's just the way it is. Things are not unfair for her, either. She was at that age once and she's been a champion before, but those days are behind her, even though she is incredibly talented and still one of the best.
      Your inability to see cause and effect is what's disgusting. People like you with these misguided ideas about age limits will guarantee that more girls endure more hardship because they, their parents, and their coaches will go to even greater lengths to keep them small and light for longer periods so they are still small once they progress to whatever arbitrary, ridiculous age you impose on them. Even worse, this will be done when these girls are still classified as juniors and hardly any attention is paid to them, so they will suffer in anonymity and no attention will be paid to what's going on. Only the ones that can emerge from that, into the senior ranks, still super tiny, will still complete, and rest assured the trail of broken bodies prior to senior competition eligibility will get longer.
      You are yet another person that believes you can apply arbitrary sets of rules and magically the abuse will disappear. The abuse will remain if you don't address the abuse. You have to run the coaches out of the sport when they harm athletes. But your misguided efforts will only serve to increase suffering, increase abuse, and punish some of the world's best athletes because you don't think they're old enough.
      Your position here is absurd. It discriminates against younger athletes and sets the conditions for even more abuse than what you are complaining about currently.

    • @elinat2414
      @elinat2414 Před 9 dny

      ​@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628There is a reason age limits exit in most areas of human endeavour. Even for something as physically harmless as the Eurovision song contest, you have to be at least 16 to perform. Because it's recognised that some pressure situations are not suitable nor healthy for children.
      If athletes in a sport are consistently at the top of their game at 14/15 before becoming 'expired' by 18...that means the nature and culture of the sport should be evaluated, not that we should simply adapt to treat the idea that some elite sports are for children as the norm. Children are not mentally equipped to deal with the pressures of performing on the global stage, you don't need to look behind the trauma of the Eteri girls at the 2022 Olympics to see that.
      Artistic gymnastics in the US had a similar culture for a long time. And you're probably aware of the abuse that was happening behind the scenes there. In this example, you can see how changes in the culture have led to greater longevity. Heck, Simone Biles is still competitive at 27! In the era of Marta Karoliy she would have been considered over the hill 7 years ago.
      It's not just that some sports need you to be young and small. It's that the culture within some sports create an environment where adults push children beyond their limit and use any means necessary to win.

  • @ashietoashes
    @ashietoashes Před měsícem +26

    this video is literally insane in the best way, its one of the best video essays i've ever seen, as a die hard figure skater and lover of video essays, i literally cannot wait for the rest of the episodes.

  • @maiahochheiser7628
    @maiahochheiser7628 Před měsícem +14

    I know too much about this I don't need to watch another video I know too much about this I don't need to watch another video I know too much about this I don't need to watch another video
    I'm watching it

  • @derangedmaniac3827
    @derangedmaniac3827 Před měsícem +19

    it's horrific to think even such a low level and by all account unremarkable skater could talk so casually about doping. if this doesn't illustrate how systematic the doping is i don't know what can.

    • @psycherevivedby
      @psycherevivedby Před 10 dny

      If you’re talking about Anastasia, that’s a child. An exploited child.

  • @tillywright5964
    @tillywright5964 Před měsícem +15

    Finally someone taking about this❤

    • @jolantagolebiewska5263
      @jolantagolebiewska5263 Před měsícem

      Nikt się nie zajął. Skazali niewinną łyżwiarkę, a winni dalej bezkarnie trenują . Odpowiedzialność zbiorowa, to odpowiedni wyrok. Kamila sama z tym dopingiem nie miała nic wspólnego. To genialna łyżwiarką, inna niż wszystkie inne. Ma cudowne ruchy i genialne umiejętności. Jej ręce od najmłodszych lat falowały. To nie doping sprawił, że jest tak genialna.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +3

      @@jolantagolebiewska5263 English sir we don’t understand

  • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628

    I followed a lot of this saga as it was going down and since. It's a sad affair. People have a lot of complaints about Eteri and Sambo70. My biggest complaint is that during the Olympics she seemed to abandon Valieva, somewhat. I remember Valieva walking through the press area and having to do that all alone. She was a child. A coach should have been with her.

  • @k250g6
    @k250g6 Před měsícem +28

    OMG finally, I've been waiting forever for Kins to make new! DON'T skip a minute, a bit dense but this is such a rare find on youtube to get this much depth on this topic

  • @celineexe
    @celineexe Před měsícem +5

    The pathologic ost hit me hard

  • @maths98_
    @maths98_ Před měsícem +4

    What surprised me the most about the weight questions to Scherbakova was Tsiscaridze's reaction (he is the one who talked to her)! Cruel, what? He is the head of Vaganova Ballet Academy, where weight standards are way more brutal! Scherbakova is 161/42kg, and Vaganova girls of the same height should weigh 40kg (just google "Vaganova weight chart"). So 161/42 is cruel, and 161/40 is suddenly OK?? He doesn't even know what his students are going through!

    • @user-cy7dj2lu7e
      @user-cy7dj2lu7e Před měsícem +2

      Vaganova's standarts are changed)
      At least we could see it at their final exams classes.
      For example:
      czcams.com/video/8d8RJYWOGSw/video.html
      ballerinas legs look more like figure skaters legs) They definitely weight more than 40 kg. Especially knowing that most of them are 165 cm +.
      You can compare to exams of early ..00s . Huge difference.

  • @SilenceHurtsMore
    @SilenceHurtsMore Před měsícem +20

    I saw kamila in jgpf in torino, she was really good. She did not need fake quads and dope…but human greed is endless…

    • @juliadizhak8397
      @juliadizhak8397 Před měsícem

      How do you know that she doesn’t need, she probably takes drugs for ages

    • @user-cy7dj2lu7e
      @user-cy7dj2lu7e Před 22 dny

      @@juliadizhak8397 с самого рождения, лол

  • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628

    IMO, if there's a real doping scheme with Sambo70, it's with Shvetsky and Xenon gas. Detection window is incredibly small yet promotes RBC production.

  • @xxelectricrosexx7329
    @xxelectricrosexx7329 Před měsícem +10

    this is so well done, excited for the next episode

  • @SD_L
    @SD_L Před měsícem +3

    Came from Reddit too ! Wow ! That was a great 1st EP ! How many will there be ?! It's riveting and so well done. Congrats to its author(s)

  • @rora8503
    @rora8503 Před měsícem +3

    Thankfully the international competitions raise age limits now. Therefore these joung girls can no longer perform at adult levels until they have been through puberty. Also the pointing system is slowly being change to favor more creative artistic expressions and cleanness over complicated jumps. The jump outscoring the other skill is one of the reasons why this approach worked to winn.

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 26 dny

      Puberty does not end at 17. A one year change is going to do nothing but make things worse. If you think puberty blockers are used now, you can rest assured they will be widespread with the new age limit. Same with starvation and everything else to keep a girl small. It will be torture for these girls as they are put into a holding pattern because people don't think about incentives with policies.

  • @QuirkyGirl10
    @QuirkyGirl10 Před 11 dny +1

    The whole system is set up against the best interests of the child athlete - and yes, I consider them children, esp Eteri’s students. I thought it was telling and very sad indeed when Zagitova pretty much said all the injuries she suffered would be worth it because it would really help her parents, (presumably if she won Olympic gold). Much like child Hollywood stars - Macauley Kulkin comes to mind - when the parents depend on the child as the major wage earner, it creates an imbalanced situation in terms of the dynamics of the parent-child relationship. No child should have to bear the brunt of having to be responsible for his/her family’s finances.

  • @lindamolinari4951
    @lindamolinari4951 Před 21 dnem +1

    ehmmm Brian Orser also walked away with 2 students who got Gold and Bronze at the Olympics in 2018. It wasn't only Eteri.

  • @daniela.radcliffe
    @daniela.radcliffe Před měsícem +35

    I will always love Eteri's girls and all other russian female figure skaters. They are truly great and interesting!

    • @luisaloveshoney8
      @luisaloveshoney8 Před měsícem +13

      Interesting take away from this video

    • @nerdcomplete7004
      @nerdcomplete7004 Před měsícem +2

      may I declare my respect, dear stranger.

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 Před 10 dny +1

      They can do the jumps, very well, but they are so robotic. They’re interpretation of music is very poor.

  • @user-di2mc8mr3h
    @user-di2mc8mr3h Před měsícem +41

    Against the backdrop of WADA's recent acquittal of 23 Chinese swimmers, for the same drug that was found in Valieva - such videos look simply funny

    • @kinsproductions
      @kinsproductions  Před měsícem +11

      We are aware of the recent developments on that matter and plan on addressing it in Episode 3.

    • @user-di2mc8mr3h
      @user-di2mc8mr3h Před měsícem +5

      @@kinsproductions Of course you do. WADA has already been justified. "Justification" is just a form of elegance.

    • @kinsproductions
      @kinsproductions  Před měsícem +9

      @@user-di2mc8mr3h Spoiler: we are not pro-WADA.

    • @user-is9pf7ge7f
      @user-is9pf7ge7f Před měsícem +9

      Everybody does doping, just for some countries it's totally fine, and for some not. Double standards and hypocrisy at it's finest

  • @QuirkyGirl10
    @QuirkyGirl10 Před 11 dny +1

    Did anyone else find Eteri’s rough handling of her skaters starting at 7:49 disturbing? She literally yanked her skaters, and it’s not like they’re that big😮

  • @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880

    On January 29, 2024, Kamila was disqualified from the team competition at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the gold was finally given to the United States, silver for Japan and the bronze medal for the Russian Olympic Committee, and if that wasn't enough, the International Skating Union voted in favor to raise the age to 17 for senior skaters on June 7, 2022. By the time, the 4-year suspension ends on December 25, 2025, her chances of competing at the 2026 Milan - Cortina Winter Olympics will be non-existent.

  • @stellaoliviasarah
    @stellaoliviasarah Před 26 dny +1

    What is the release schedule for the rest of the series?

    • @kinsproductions
      @kinsproductions  Před 24 dny +1

      Hi! Thank you for watching. We are in post production for episode two which should drop in the next month or two. To be notified of the next episode, subscribe to our channel on CZcams and sign up for our mailing list at mailchi.mp/e1256609da06/subscribe-to-kins-mailing-list

  • @ellen9705
    @ellen9705 Před měsícem +2

    Kins 👍👍👍太棒了! 非常期待下一个视频。

  • @Calidastas
    @Calidastas Před 10 dny

    Valieva is the best figure skater in the history of figure skating. And she has been since she was 11.

  • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628

    I'm interested to see more details about the Chinese swimmers when you publish that. The anti-doping agencies all suck, in my opinion. The clowns at USADA were an embarrassment during this saga. They whined and cried endlessly. USADA is the same group that busted a weightlifter for doping at a qualifier and still let the lifter go to the championship meet, for which doping was used to qualify, but then cried about Valieva for exceedingly small amounts of TMZ, weeks before the Olympics, with clean tests at the Olympics. USADA is a joke of an organization.

  • @duplicatesesquiplicate2692
    @duplicatesesquiplicate2692 Před měsícem +10

    came from reddit

  • @elmaa8511
    @elmaa8511 Před měsícem +5

    24:38 can we take second for this 💀

  • @misstekhead
    @misstekhead Před 2 dny

    “Video is not available.”
    Yet, I am still getting recommendations for this video? What’s going on?

  • @yubbadubbadubba
    @yubbadubbadubba Před 28 dny

    Says video not available :(

  • @skatefan9495
    @skatefan9495 Před 24 dny +1

    Trusova's jump layout was not more difficult than Nathan Chen's. She didn't even have a triple axel.

    • @kinsproductions
      @kinsproductions  Před 24 dny

      The base value for Trusova’s FS is 95.39. The base value for Chen’s FS 94.34.

    • @skatefan9495
      @skatefan9495 Před 24 dny +1

      @@kinsproductions Nathan's planned base value was higher. He singled a triple in combination with his last quad.

  • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628

    I'm not sure Meldonium (sp?) works. Russian gymnast, Aliya Mustafina, said they gave it to her before it was banned and she said it did nothing for her.

    • @roddo1955
      @roddo1955 Před 5 dny

      It increases stamina. It doesn't make you better. It enables you to train longer and harder. Which makes you better.

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 5 dny

      @@roddo1955 All of this is a lie - the drug does not increase stamina. There is zero evidence of this and there isn't even a mechanism for it. It throttles the dominant resting substrate pathway and the math doesn't work, and at high intensities the dominant substrate is lactate, and you aren't going to get more ATP from throttling fat metabolism and increasing glucose metabolism. The heart doesn't work that way. If the heart was engineered to use glucose in high amounts you'd drain too much from the blood and deny it for the brain, which is dependent on it.
      And as mentioned, when the drug was legal it was found in very few samples. If it worked, it would have been rampant.

  • @nilslemercier276
    @nilslemercier276 Před měsícem +5

    I’m waiting for that second episode !!!!

  • @rwang1618
    @rwang1618 Před 29 dny +12

    I have to offer my opinion on this.
    1. Russia is not the only one guilty of exploiting athletes. Check the American gymnastics team molesting.
    2. Russia is not the only one using dangerous substances. Check body-building and how people are actually dying.
    3. America does it way better using child stars to rake in money. Check Ezra Miller.
    4. I am sorry, but the Olympics have become more and more political. Check those CZcamsr's rants about how Simone Biles betrayed American values when she quit part of the games.
    This doesn't mean Russia is not guilty. This means
    1. There are some systematic problems worldwide with professional sports.
    2. Anyone is capable of doing something evil. Accusing a specific group while ignoring others will only make things worse. If there is a loophole, people are going to exploit it.

    • @skatefan9495
      @skatefan9495 Před 24 dny +2

      Russia's athletics are state-run. US Gymnastics, Figure skating and other sports are private organizations that receive no government funding. It is an apples and oranges comparison. Yes there was abuse in gymnastics. The perpetrator was prosecuted and is in prison basically for life. The organization paid out hundred of millions of dollars to victim and have pledged reform. Where is the same accountability and commitment for what Russia has done?

    • @roddo1955
      @roddo1955 Před 5 dny

      Whattaboutism in 4 easy steps

  • @und3rcut535
    @und3rcut535 Před 25 dny +3

    as an ex-academy player who played in England watching your weight constantly and getting injured that ends your career are not a farm concept from me. I have seen these hundreds of times many boys just loose their careers before even having one.

  • @jessesmith-garcia5313
    @jessesmith-garcia5313 Před měsícem +2

    Seeing Putin sleeping in the stands was funny!

  • @Maria-nv7bk
    @Maria-nv7bk Před 23 dny +2

    This was a good video but I really didnt like the final apart about russian figure skating being all a show with costumes and crazy makeup like it was a bad thing. The problems u talked about during the video are true, the abuse and spectacular of this abuse on mostly young children is true and a disgusting thing happening in the sport; its also true that even tho it happens in other countries its usually more coveted while the russian situation is much more systemic and obvious and since then more shocking and problematic.
    But the downgrading of the “show” part of this disciplin makes me realize you are missing a big point about this sport and the history of this sport. Figure skating is also art, its not just competition, its ice shows, gala, it is spectacular and its fundamentally camp and glamour and a little bit of cringe (lol) and extravaganza. Especially the european side of the sport has always been a lot about shows, about backflips and crazy stunts on the ice, and costumes, and ridiculous music. Notably nowadays this side of figure skating is less visible in competitions where there are rigid rules and regulations and “standart” programs and more visible in galas and special performances from which u took ALL the clips shown in that particular part of this video. So this is a really nice and and well informed video and it touches a lot of problematic topics that should be more talked about in the sport; but that part was, in my opinion, a little bit misleading and purposefully ignorant about a large cultural part of this sport.

  • @QuirkyGirl10
    @QuirkyGirl10 Před 11 dny

    Eteri “Athletes need to be given vitamins.” Yeah, how about getting your vitamins through food?

  • @misstekhead
    @misstekhead Před 2 dny

    What in the…? Why is your video unavailable? I thought it was my VPN, but that isn’t it. Please reupload the video if you can? Also, my comments are not showing up or sent further down and hidden amongst a plethora of other comments.

    • @kinsproductions
      @kinsproductions  Před dnem

      Hi, this video is not geo-blocked anywhere to our knowledge, so this issue is confusing to us as well. Could you let us know what region you're watching from? You could DM us by emailing inquiries@kins.productions

  • @sandranorman5469
    @sandranorman5469 Před 27 dny

    And worst of all she danced to “Bolero”. Desecration

  • @Glitteringmoonstone2022
    @Glitteringmoonstone2022 Před měsícem +7

    Thank you for this I am a huge figure skating fan. I had completely checked out of the Women's decipline for this reason, now that they are not able to compete internationally the vacuum left is just as bed too.
    I had sympathy for kamila valieva b/c she was child, but evaporated when she went back to Russia.
    Good video thanks for making this again

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 26 dny +1

      You're mad she went back to her home country, where her family is, along with everything else she knows in life? I don't understand.

    • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
      @user-tn7zh9rx3j Před 3 dny

      And what you wouldn't move back to your country where your family and friends are?

  • @user-vd7ee8ob3b
    @user-vd7ee8ob3b Před 24 dny

    Let me know if I got it right? She spoke the truth that she used dope, witch on one hand is immoral for the other contenstants, but on the other hand is extremly brave thing to admit considering her freadom and sadly, she took all the blame and not the system that pushed her to cheat.

  • @heyheyvicky1498
    @heyheyvicky1498 Před měsícem +5

    Olympics was an absolute sh*t show and ruined the sport for me yet again. Especially because Kamila is such a 1 in a Mio. skater, even without her jumps she has such a presence and artistry on the ice. I hope this is not the end of her career, but I would have loved for Eteri to finally be stopped. And I have to admit that I liked watching competitions without Russia, not because if the absence if their atheltes, but you knew there would be no drama (besides falls). The video was very good and I'd love for you to make one about scoring, since it is a hot topic for many years now.

  • @allier1867
    @allier1867 Před 22 dny

    i blame Valieva's parents. they know the cost of 'glory'. yes their kid is talented but my gosh they know. how could they not know. each and every eteri girl in recent years that had retired was due to only two things, eating disorder or injury.

  • @watchingvide0s
    @watchingvide0s Před měsícem +4

    insane omfg

  • @fiji4002
    @fiji4002 Před měsícem +3

    wtf pathologic ost

  • @costeroid
    @costeroid Před 21 dnem +2

    Nice journalistic attempt to be "neutral"!

    • @Jeremy-wp4yh
      @Jeremy-wp4yh Před 12 dny +1

      This video essay was done well.

    • @henriquemonteiro7245
      @henriquemonteiro7245 Před 9 dny

      True​@@Jeremy-wp4yh

    • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
      @user-tn7zh9rx3j Před 3 dny

      Nah some of the parts of the video were good but there many where they go overboard with russia is a scary country blah blah

  • @irinauuuu
    @irinauuuu Před 5 hodinami

    Спасибо за видео. Спасибо, что говорите про войну. После того, как Аделинп Сотникова украла победу и получила золото, Путин анексировал Крым. Вы всё правильно говорите, он использовал победы спорсменов как гитлер

  • @adamli8182
    @adamli8182 Před 19 dny +2

    Russians carry this sport to the another level
    Figure skating going backward without them

    • @Jeremy-wp4yh
      @Jeremy-wp4yh Před 12 dny +1

      Are you advocating for girls to use puberty blockers until 17? That's what Russia did

    • @irinauuuu
      @irinauuuu Před 5 hodinami +1

      it is better to go backward than traumatize kids and teenagers

  • @EmaAgafitei
    @EmaAgafitei Před 28 dny

    Girl on a Ball is my favourite Kamila Valieva program ever. She has so much potential, she had and still has it.
    Prior to going to Eteri, she trained under Moskvina's school.
    They probably ruined most talented skater in years and the world stood there and watched. But most important they ruined a child. I do not care, I do not think she knew what she was taking. She knew them as dietary supliments.

  • @soliharahmatullayeva
    @soliharahmatullayeva Před měsícem +12

    Когда начала смотреть надеялась что увижу непредвзятная отношения к русским спортсменом и не услышу очередное дермо из пропаганды западных СМИ.
    Вы не видите картину целиком. У вас толька односторонная представления о ситуации с Камилой.
    Очень жаль.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +3

      Купи себе мозги. Говорю тебе это как коренная москвичка 😂🤡🫵

    • @soliharahmatullayeva
      @soliharahmatullayeva Před měsícem +2

      @@prisonisinourminds8070 Ты больше нуждаешься его 🙄

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem

      @@soliharahmatullayeva как можно быть таким тупым человеком в 2024 году, слушай дальше Путина

    • @vigdisrename2537
      @vigdisrename2537 Před 28 dny +1

      @@prisonisinourminds8070 а путин-то тут каким ветром? люди фигово относятся к фигуристкам, и это объективное мнение

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před 27 dny

      @@vigdisrename2537 почитайте про родченкова и события 2014 года. Спорт один из его известных оружий пропаганды

  • @ChristineTheHippie
    @ChristineTheHippie Před měsícem +7

    Wow. This was so powerful and chilling. You hit the nail in the head: Russian and Eteri's "dominance" is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. I can't wait for more. Well done 👍

  • @megan6243
    @megan6243 Před měsícem +1

    Yessss

  • @mauiskater
    @mauiskater Před 12 dny

    Sergei Polunin although not a skater but a ballet dancer is this way now as well. He has three Putin tattoos on his chest. Great dancer but sad he’s gone this way as well

  • @prisonisinourminds8070
    @prisonisinourminds8070 Před 25 dny +1

    Btw I’m not sure if you will touch on that but I strongly suspect that Putin is dating Valieva. Mark my words we will hear about it again

    • @sayheytojesus
      @sayheytojesus Před 23 dny +2

      камиле 17 лет,вы в своем уме

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před 23 dny +1

      @@sayheytojesus Кабаевой тоже было 17. Плюс Валиевой уже 18

    • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
      @user-tn7zh9rx3j Před 3 dny

      How brainwashed are you???

  • @quatele
    @quatele Před měsícem +25

    This narrative is ridiculous. No drug can give you skating skills. If it were true, American Ilia Malinin would be the biggest drug user in skating. Why are you focusing only on women’s singles. Why aren’t Russian men dominating skating? This is pure conspiracy nonsense.

    • @RenaFurudechan
      @RenaFurudechan Před měsícem +6

      It won't give you better skills but, to do a perfect program at a contest is more difficult, and thats only at a regular contest, now imagine that in the Olympics, they are nervous, their muscles tense up,it can affect on your memmory as well and the pressure of representing a country and being watched by millions, Influences a lot, there's many moves that the skaters can't do in contest, but they can while they're on practice, it does a big difference

    • @quatele
      @quatele Před měsícem +4

      @@RenaFurudechan So if you think they are all drug users, why do the drugs only work for the women skaters and not the men?

    • @RenaFurudechan
      @RenaFurudechan Před měsícem

      @@quatele I never said that they're all drug users, I only talked abt the influence in athletes

    • @fsc4823
      @fsc4823 Před měsícem +7

      it’s for more training. the medications she was on helped with endurance and stamina. those girls train quads 10x more than skaters from other countries who try them. They’re doing 10+ quad attempts per session when most other skaters are trying 2 or 3 tops. this is a very tired argument. no magic pill gives you skating skills but they do give you the energy to train longer and harder.

    • @quatele
      @quatele Před měsícem +3

      @@fsc4823 Why do the drugs only work for the women skaters and not the men?

  • @maouimaisnon2535
    @maouimaisnon2535 Před měsícem +16

    Okay but Kamila's case is quite unique... the meds (TMZ) is super easy to get, and no other athlete from her camp was ever tested positive. I don't care about Eteri. But I hate that people try to make Kamila look like a "poor abused child". She was almost 16 at the time of Olympics, okay ? At this age, american "children" are considered old enough to work and drive a fckn car. Besides, it it used as an excuse fort poorly informed "fans" to put every single russian figure skater in the same batch, while actually , the ones suffering the most from the ban and the age change (and bad reputation) are russians figure skaters themselves. Just a reminder that the ones saying "poor children, they are abused" are the exact same who think they are allowed to trashtalk on literal 13yo kids with "war supporters", "doped machines" and so on. Where is the said sympathy you love to take pride in when defending "children"? They use this as a excuse to be racist, because according to them thye context is justifying it. So i'll say it again but no, Karen, there is no justification for putting a whole category of people in the same batch. Well, for me westerners have lost every credit to talk fairly about anything happening in Russia, the bias is just too strong. And I say this when I'm myself a westerner. I just know how to discern clichés from reality.

    • @SilenceHurtsMore
      @SilenceHurtsMore Před měsícem +8

      They all doped in that club, they were just lucky not to get caught, kamila might have eaten something to throw off the formula. Scherby doped as well it was clear from her state during practice and competitions, when she miraculously recovered by smelling “salts”😂

    • @maouimaisnon2535
      @maouimaisnon2535 Před měsícem +1

      @@SilenceHurtsMore dear, because you read some conspiracy theories on Reddit doesn’t mean you are right ☺️ you need concrete evidences to prove that someone actually doped. Their tea was tested more than anyone and nothing was found except from Kamila. And just so you know, smelling salts are used in a lot of sports and it’s not a drug at all 🤣🤣 I don’t know if you actually went to school, but you don’t dope this way 😂 anyway, proofless accusations is bad, not only it makes you look like a stupid hater, but it hinders the anti doping process as a whole. If you have « evidences », why didn’t you already gave them to WADA ? 🤣🤣
      This is exactly the mentality of a loser. You should focus on how your favorite skaters could improve their skating, instead of bringing down the others. Skaters who are good enough don’t need to accuse other to feel better and win titles. 🙂

    • @fsc4823
      @fsc4823 Před měsícem +1

      you do not opt of of a STATE SPONSORED DOPING PROGRAM as a 15 year old girl. be fucking serious. russophobia isn’t real. We call them all cheaters because they are proven to be. this harms all clean athletes, THAT is why even those sympathetic to the girls themselves still insist they remain banned.

    • @fsc4823
      @fsc4823 Před měsícem

      the 2018 ban for rusfed exposed their doping program which included a flushing system so athletes could remain “clean” on tests. they’re ALL doping.

    • @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628
      @charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Před 26 dny

      @@SilenceHurtsMore Are smelling salts considered doping? I don't know - haven't seen that before. I would think not, since they did that right next to the ice and nothing was ever said about it, to my knowledge.

  • @user-eq3zc1ec2o
    @user-eq3zc1ec2o Před 8 dny

    Here we go again. Behind so called "critique" there's nothing but anger frustration hatred and jealousy towards russian female skaters and team Tutberidze. And Ms. Shabatova has achieved nothing in her career. She is nothing 😂😂😂

  • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
    @user-tn7zh9rx3j Před 3 dny

    Russians use figure skating as entertainment hooow scarrry what a propaganda 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

  • @user-sw5tg4lc2b
    @user-sw5tg4lc2b Před měsícem +8

    Ну да. Иностранцы всегда всё знают лучше.)))))))))))0000
    Камила Валиева не сидела на ДОПИНГЕ. У неё в крови был обнаружен препарат, который принимал её дедушка с проблемами с сердцем. У неё в крови было обнаружено его МИЗЕРНОЕ содержание. Просто западные фигуристки ни о чём. Им до наших как до луны пешком. Да, согласна с тем, что контролируют вес спортсмена. Я сама занималась профессионально фигурным 11 лет. И да, у нас было по 3-4 тренировки в день, жёсткие диеты и контроль веса каждую неделю. Это плохо сказывается на здоровье. Но это спорт, жестокий, и даже очень. Результат требует жертв.

    • @prisonisinourminds8070
      @prisonisinourminds8070 Před měsícem +7

      Что за бред. Адвокаты представляющие Камилу даже не опровергли факт что у нее был допинг мало того еще и принесли документы что она была на 60 разных добавках. Ее напичкала Этери по заказу Путина, та же история что была в 2014 году. И если бы Америка хотела бы забрать «наше» золото то они бы убрали вообще всех фигуристок а не только Камилу потому что в итоге все равно бы победила либо Саша либо Аня. Купите себе мозг и отключите свои недалекие эмоции

    • @user-lc9vb8zc9s
      @user-lc9vb8zc9s Před měsícem

      @@prisonisinourminds8070не-не… по заказу Лаврова! 100% инфа!

    • @juliadizhak8397
      @juliadizhak8397 Před měsícem +1

      And nobody found her grandfather 😂

    • @nerdcomplete7004
      @nerdcomplete7004 Před měsícem

      @@juliadizhak8397 yes. the Course must have been a real shitshow with Valieva's side arguments.

    • @nerdcomplete7004
      @nerdcomplete7004 Před měsícem

      слушайте, вот официальная версия Валиевой и ее представителей такая: в сапсане съела десерт из клубники и сгущенки, который сделал дед. Он же возил ее из дома до катка, хотя она жила в 200 метрах от Хрустального, а дед жил в Подмосковье. При этом в суд такой любящий дедушка не явился, хотя была даже Женя Тарасова, парница. Как вы это объясняете? И как ваша фраза "контролируют вес спортсмена" согласуется с употреблением десертов перед отборочным чемпионатом России?

  • @user-cy7dj2lu7e
    @user-cy7dj2lu7e Před měsícem +15

    lol
    propaganda vs propaganda vs propaganda vs propaganda....

  • @user-tn7zh9rx3j
    @user-tn7zh9rx3j Před 3 dny

    Lmao what are you talking about 😂😂😂😂

  • @elen7495
    @elen7495 Před měsícem +1

    udumb

  • @nicoleletinsky8809
    @nicoleletinsky8809 Před 28 dny

    Is there a part 2 that I missed? I watched that whole thing and now I need my part 2. Leaving me on a damn cliffhanger 🫶🏾

  • @ryan-pf9ud
    @ryan-pf9ud Před 28 dny +1

    Why has the international judging community not downgraded the scores for the ugly form on the jumps? The corkscrew is not pleasing to look at.

  • @neopetfukcer
    @neopetfukcer Před měsícem +10

    This is incredible. Thank you so much 👏🏼