Kamila Valieva, a Russian figure skater, has been authorised to compete in the Beijing Video Games. The IOC, Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) and the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) all known as on the CAS to reinstate a suspension Kamila Valieva was given by the Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA), over a doping violation she acquired regarding a check pattern taken in December.
The choice clears the 15-year outdated to compete within the brief program of the ladies’s singles competitors on Tuesday. She is the favourite for the gold for ladies’s singles.
As a minor, Kamila Valieva shouldn’t be the one particular person of curiosity within the case. The World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) advised CNN on Sunday the company will examine Kamila Valieva entourage.
“When a minor is concerned, there’s a requirement within the World Anti-Doping Code to analyze the entourage,” WADA mentioned in a press release. “RUSADA (Russian Anti-Doping Company) already indicated it had began that. We are going to ask our unbiased Intelligence and Investigations Dept to look into it as effectively.”
The skater was already in a position to compete within the Video games as a result of the failed check solely got here to mild after she helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) win gold within the determine skating workforce occasion on Monday, February 7.
The CAS ruling solely decided whether or not the determine skater can compete in Beijing, leaving the difficulty of the groups occasion gold medal to be determined at a later date, Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams advised reporters earlier within the day Monday.
“(The medals) is not going to be sorted out by this choice. That can in all probability not be sorted out throughout this Video games,” Adams advised reporters.
Addressing Valieva’s future previous to the announcement of the CAS choice, Adams mentioned that the case towards her will proceed as a result of it doesn’t affirm or refute the doping cost and there will probably be an “on-going process”.
Adams additionally confirmed to CNN that if Kamila Valieva wins a spot on the rostrum on Tuesday, it is probably a medal ceremony will go forward as deliberate, however that the medal may nonetheless be revoked at a later date.
Kamila Valieva returned the constructive check through the Russian Determine Skating Championships in Saint Petersburg on December 25.
However the outcomes weren’t reported by a Swedish laboratory till February 8 — at some point after the ROC workforce gained gold within the occasion in Beijing, in response to the Worldwide Testing Company (ITA).
Kamila Valieva was instantly given a provisional suspension by RUSADA, which routinely prohibits athletes from taking part in all sports activities.
The determine skater challenged the suspension on February 9 and, at a listening to that very same day, RUSADA lifted the provisional ban — permitting her to proceed competing on the Olympics, in response to the ITA.
Responding to the controversy, the ROC on Friday mentioned Kamila Valieva had “repeatedly handed doping assessments” whereas already in Beijing, including that it’s taking measures to maintain Valieva’s “truthfully gained” gold.
“The doping check of an athlete who examined constructive doesn’t apply to the interval of the Olympic Video games. On the identical time, the athlete repeatedly handed doping assessments earlier than and after December 25, 2021, together with whereas already in Beijing through the determine skating match. All the outcomes are damaging,” the ROC assertion mentioned.
Individually, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Friday there was a “misunderstanding” over Valieva’s constructive check as he provided full assist to the determine skater.
On Tuesday, Kamila Valieva plans to skate to the music “In Memoriam” by Kirill Richter and try a triple axel in addition to a triple flip in her program. Final week, she grew to become the primary girl to land a quadruple axel on the Olympics — leaving followers clamoring for extra.
CNN’s Selina Wang, Hannah Ritchie, Wayne Sterling, George Ramsay, Duarte Mendonca and Uliana Pavlova contributed reporting.
