Kamila Valieva, who is suspected of violating anti-doping rules, will be suspended from the competition and not allowed to compete in the individual singles tournament, Sport-Express reports, citing its sources (with the wording “became known”).
Updated: however, after some time, the news was removed from the site. The publication published a retraction.
The final decision on the term of punishment (or even acquittal) can be made after the end of the Games in Beijing, as happened four years ago with curler Alexander Krushelnitsky and bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva, Sport Express specified.
“At the same time, the ROC team is almost guaranteed to be deprived of gold medals in the team tournament. At the moment, the IOC is under serious pressure on this matter, part of which is the publication of confidential information on the British portal Inside the Games, ”wrote Sport Express.
Updated: Press attache of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR) Olga Yermolina said that there would be no official statement on the doping test of Kamila Valieva today. “The source can only be official statements, which we are waiting for. Apparently not today. Half past eleven already in Beijing,” said Yermolina.
According to RBC sources, traces of trimetazidine were found in the doping sample of Kamila Valieva. The drug has been banned since 2015, as its pharmacological effects can be qualified as a modulator of cardiometabolism.
Earlier, The Guardian wrote that the substance found during the doping test is not able to affect the results of the athlete.
Earlier it also became known that a legal issue related to an anti-doping test passed by 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is the reason that the awards ceremony for the figure skating team competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was postponed.
Recall that Russian athletes at the Beijing Games do not compete under the flag of the country, but under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee. To designate a team of Russian athletes, the abbreviation ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) is used. Instead of the anthem of the Russian Federation, a fragment from the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky sounds. This is due to the fact that the Russian Federation is suspended from participation in the Olympic Games until December 2022 – the world anti-doping agency WADA imposed sanctions on Russia for violating anti-doping rules.
Athletes from Russia cannot represent their country under the national flag at the world’s largest competitions – the Olympic, Paralympic Games and World Championships. Civil servants of the Russian Federation, the leadership of the Olympic and Paralympic Committees of Russia are prohibited from attending international sporting events. Russian athletes who are not noticed in doping violations are allowed to compete under a neutral flag and without playing the national anthem.
The decision on sanctions was made by the WADA Executive Committee on December 9, 2019. The reason was manipulations with the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, which for a year and a half falsified test results for submission to WADA in order to remove athletes who violated the rules from liability. Russia has appealed the WADA decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. CAS upheld WADA’s decision, while reducing the period of ineligibility to two years from the date of confirmation of WADA’s decision. This deadline expires on December 16, 2022. Also, according to the decision of the arbitration, RUSADA must, within the same period, compensate WADA for expenses in the amount of $1.27 million incurred before the date of the decision in connection with the study of the authenticity of the data received from the Moscow laboratory in January 2019.
