The Russian skater Kamila Valievaa 15-year-old favorite for individual Olympic gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and who was proclaimed Olympic champion with the Russian team (medals have not yet been awarded), tested positive for trimetazidine , a drug prescribed to adults to treat angina pectoris and listed in the list of substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA or WADA in its English terminology), during an anti-doping test performed in end of Decemberas confirmed this Friday by the agency in charge of anti-doping controls (ITA).
The positive control appeared after analyzing a sample of the skater that was taken on December 25thChristmas Day, during the Russian Skating Championships, held in the city of St. Petersburg.
Provisional suspension
Russian authorities temporarily suspended her, but lifted her veto on Feb. 9, two days after she won Olympic team gold, the ITA said. Therefore, the young promise of skating, who is a minor and who is protected by this circumstance, traveled to China with the consent of the authorities of her country, who knew the positive of St. Petersburg.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which must make a final decision on the matter before the next day 15, which is when the individual skating program at the Games begins. The initial suspicion of doping jumped on Wednesday when Mark AdamsIOC’s communications director, told a news conference that the awarding of medals for the figure skating program, won by Russia with Valieva in their ranks for a “legal” problem that was being studied. Valieva, like the other participants in the Russian delegation, competes in Beijing 2022 under the acronym ROC (Russian Olympic Committee), as they are forbidden to wear the flag of their country or to play the anthem in case of winning a medal of or. This ban is due to the country’s continued sanction due to state doping that affected a significant number of Russian athletes in numerous disciplines in both the winter and summer programs of the Games.
He is 15 years old
Valievaa 15-year-old teenager, therefore, gained worldwide admiration after becoming the first woman to make a quadruple jump at an Olympics.
The Russian Olympic Committee has stated that Valieva has the right to continue participating in the Games despite having tested positive by relying on legislation that protects minors. In addition, they argue that the positive test took place before the Games, so “the gold won by Russia in Beijing should not be questioned.”
However, the countries affected, the United States, who won the silver; Japan, which won the bronze, and Canada, who would get the bronze if the Russian disqualification occurred, do not think the same. Team medals remain undelivered, with the curiosity that some award-winning entrants have already left China due to demands from local authorities not to allow athletes to stay in the country after competing due to demanding anti-life measures.
The official information
“The ITA wishes to report that Kamila Valieva, a member of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) delegation in Beijing, is a minor and therefore a ‘protected person’ under the World Anti-Doping Code. This condition applies to minors based on the World Anti-Doping Code. For this reason, the ITA was not required to publish the name of the affected person. However, seeing that some media bypassed this protection, the ITA has been forced to disclose public information, “the body responsible for controls from Beijing said on Friday.
From there, the case is in the hands of the TAS, as both the World Anti-Doping Agency as the IOC have gone through the provisional lifting of the sanction decided by the Russian anti-doping agency.
