The doctor of the Russian national figure skating team at the Beijing Olympics, Philip Shvetsky, filed a lawsuit against the publication “Angle of View”, which called him “Doctor Doping”. About this he informed CASS.
An action for the protection of honor, dignity and commercial reputation has been filed with the court of Togliatti. Shvetsky asks the publication to refute the allegations he published, as well as to pay him compensation in the amount of 1 ruble.
“I have filed a motion with the court, because in this document they call me ‘Doctor Doping’, thus publicly accusing me of criminal activities in the absence of a judicial act that has entered into force,” said Shvetsky.
In February 2022, Shvetsky was the doctor for the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics when Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva had a positive doping test. February 10 “Perspective” published an article with the title “The doctor of the Tutberidze group will be suspected in the doping scandal with Valieva.” He said Shvetsky could be charged with inciting the use of illegal substances.
In January 2023, RUSADA’s anti-doping disciplinary commission acquitted Valieva, finding no fault or negligence in her actions. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Skating Union (ISU) challenged the verdict before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. WADA calls for Valieva to be withdrawn from competition for four years.
In October 2022, Shvetsky stopped work with the group of coach Eteri Tutberidze. “Our work was designed for the period of preparation for the Olympics. But I want to emphasize that I was and remain a doctor of the Russian national team, a doctor of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency,” he said.
How writing publication “Chempionat.com”, in 2007 Shvetsky worked as a doctor for the Russian national rowing team. Six rowers were subsequently disqualified for anti-doping rule violations. Shvetsky admitted that he gave athletes legal drugs illegally – intravenously. He later said that the federation’s management and the sports ministry “fought for the fate of the athletes” and that “the only way out was to put all the blame on the team doctor”.
RIA News writing that Shvetsky has been officially a doctor of the Russian national figure skating team since 2014. In 2016, during the European Championships, Ekaterina Bobrova passed a positive doping test for the banned substance meldonium. The Sport-Express edition suggested that Shvetsky had mixed the blisters with drugs. The doctor sued the newspaper, the parties concluded global agreement.
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