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The World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) has referred the case of Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after deeming the Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA) has made no progress on the skater’s Winter Olympics doping case.
In a press release on Tuesday, WADA President Witold Bańka stated: “Regardless of placing RUSADA beneath formal discover to resolve the Kamila Valieva case promptly, no progress was made. Subsequently, I can affirm WADA has now formally referred it on to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport.”
CAS had no remark when requested if it had acquired WADA’s referral however stated it “will publish a media launch as soon as the enchantment has been acquired and registered.”
CNN has reached out to RUSADA for remark.
Valieva, who’s now 16, was suspended by RUSADA the day after she guided the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to victory within the staff occasion at Beijing 2022, throughout which she turned the primary girl to land a quadruple leap within the Winter Olympics.
She had examined optimistic for a banned substance – the center medicine trimetazidine, which may improve endurance – in December 2021. However the outcomes of the failed December drug check solely got here to mild in the course of the Olympics when it was analyzed and reported to RUSADA.
Valieva has not publicly defined the optimistic check outcomes.
The IOC’s disciplinary committee has stated that Valieva blamed the optimistic check on a mix-up together with her grandfather’s medicine, as she stated he makes use of trimetazidine for his coronary heart situation.
In October, RUSADA stated in a press release that it had accomplished its investigation however was holding the ultimate decision of a case involving a determine skater, who’s a member of the Russian Olympic Committee and a “protected individual,” confidential.
WADA responded to that RUSADA assertion in October by noting that “WADA is just not a celebration to this case however because it at all times does, WADA will evaluation the result of the tribunal and reserves the precise to lodge an enchantment with the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport, if acceptable.”
On the time, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) stated it anticipated RUSADA to adjust to the WADA code and to deal with the case swiftly to permit the Worldwide Skating Union “to outline the particular outcomes of the determine skating staff competitors on the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022 and the IOC to resolve on the medal allocation.”
CNN has reached out to the IOC for remark.
Workforce USA completed second within the staff occasion, Japan third and Canada in fourth. On account of the doping controversy, no medal ceremony was held in the course of the Video games.