Winter Olympics: Who is Kamila Valieva's coach Eteri Tutberidze?

What kind of training method is it when a coach confronts rather than comforts a sobbing 15-year-old at the Olympic Games?

«Chilling», according to the International Olympic Committee. «Key» for athletes to achieve victory, according to the Russian government.

The Eteri Tutberidze kind, according to what millions witnessed this week.

That and all the events surrounding her young skater Kamila Valieva at these Beijing Winter Olympics have thrust the spotlight on a coach who has produced a string of young champions in recent years.

So what do we know about the Russian and her methods? And will anything now change?

Tutberidze, 47, is a former ice dancer who then lived in the United States in the 1990s for six years working in ice shows.

While there she was caught up in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. She and her troupe had been staying over the road from the federal building where the blast happened and received compensation as a victim of the attack.

While in the US, she had a daughter, Diana Davis, who competed at Beijing 2022 in the ice dance, finishing 14th along with Gleg Smolkin. Davis is not trained by her mother.

Tutberidze began building a coaching career in the US but then moved back to Russia, eventually joining the Sambo-70 club in Moscow. It was only eight years ago, when she coached 15-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya to team gold with Russia at Sochi 2014, that she started to become a household name.

She has since won many coaching awards, including the International Skating Union's (ISU) coach of the year accolade in 2020 and a state award in 2018 that was presented to her by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The ISU at the time described her as a «talented coach», who has «given so much