Putin questions sports care Demands medical oversight

May 28, 2025

Putin questions how oversight of sports medicine could allow the situations he associates with Sharapova and Valieva, attributing his account of athletes' and doctors' conduct rather than establishing legal findings. Skvortsova identifies Valieva when he asks about the figure-skating example. Putin calls for coordinated state control involving the sports minister and Olympic Committee. The publisher's matching transcript shows that his intervening address is to Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze; the working caption's 'Anton Terelich' does not identify a third accused athlete.

After Skvortsova's report Putin calls for coordinated state control of sports medicine involving the sports minister and Olympic Committee. He invokes Sharapova and Valieva through his attributed account of oversight failures, without establishing new legal findings. Chernyshenko promises work on federation standards and safeguards against medical practices jeopardising athletes.