When figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze's "tremendous coldness" was described as "chilling to see" at the last Winter Olympics, it may have been hard to imagine her returning to her sport's biggest stage. Four years later, the highly successful coach is at Milan-Cortina - and not everyone is happy about it. Tutberidze and her training methods were under the spotlight at Beijing 2022 amid the Kamila Valieva doping scandal that rocked the Games, and it was the then-IOC president Thomas Bach who gave the stinging assessment of the coach. Rather than comforting 15-year-old gold medal favourite Valieva when she left the ice in tears after falling several times, Tutberidze had instead asked the youngster "why did you stop fighting?" Bach said he had been "very, very disturbed" by what he had seen and that it did not give him "much confidence in this closest entourage of Kamila, neither with regard to what happened in the past, nor as far as it concerns the future". Well, that future is here and so too is Tutberidze. Not only is Tutberidze back at the Olympics, but she is apparently coach to another Russian teenage medal hope. That skater is 18-year-old Adeliia Petrosian, who is here as a neutral athlete (AIN) as Russia's team are banned from the Games because of the country's invasion of Ukraine. However, Tutberidze is not officially listed as the teenager's coach in the media guide for these Games and it remains to be seen whether she will be at rinkside when Petrosian competes. Whoever she is with, there will be many eyes on Tutberidze, with the shadow of Valieva and Beijing 2022 set to loom large
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