Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva, 15, is CLEARED to continue competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics as CAS rules in her favour despite failed drugs test for banned heart medication
The Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva has been cleared to continue at Beijing 2022 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in the 15-year-old’s favour in the doping scandal that has rocked the Winter Olympics.
In a major reprieve, the court went against the appeals of the International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union, who all contested the decision of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to lift a provisional doping suspension against the skating prodigy last week.
Valieva, who won team gold last Monday, is now free to fight for the individual figure skating title on Tuesday, for which she will be the overwhelming favourite.
Kamila Valieva, 15, has been cleared to continue at Beijing 2022 after a doping scandal
News of her positive for banned heart medication only came to light last Tuesday, despite failing a test on Christmas Day 2021 at the national championships.
Her situation has cast a huge cloud over the Games, but in a ruling that will create huge controversy in some quarters, the three-person CAS panel declared she can remain in Beijing. A decision on whether Valieva’s committed an anti-doping rule violation will be made at a later date.
Citing the bizarre, unexplained delay between the positive, on December 25, and it being reported by a laboratory in Stockholm last Tuesday, the panel said there were ‘serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes’ anti-doping test’.
The panel reasoned…
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